Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility : The Enlightened and Depraved 9781498537278, 9781498537261

Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England: Illicit Sex and the Nobility 1351921223, 9781351921220

Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the

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Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain [1 ed.] 9780754699422, 9781409400530

Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure

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Nobility and patrimony in modern France 9781526120526

This is a study of noble families’ collective memory and transmission of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

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Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe 9781409405528, 9781409405511

In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of

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The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900 9781442652538

The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature. However, the nineteenth century'

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Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France 9780801470394

Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meaning

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Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France 0801470390, 9780801470394

Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meaning

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The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches 9780271035871

Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in Fre

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Richard II and the English nobility 9780713157086

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Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic 9780804799638

Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds considers the scientific controversy about the cause of yellow fever to examine and c

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