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The Nobility of the Election of Bayeux, 1463-1666: Continuity Through Change
By (Author) James B. Wood
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
305.5209442
Paperback
236
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
312g
Reconstructing the collective experience of an entire provincial nobility over a period of more than two centuries, James Wood finds current theories about the early modernFrench nobility inadequate. Concentrating on socio-economic structures and changes, he analyzes the composition and way of life of all the nobles--poor and prosperous, obscure an