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  • Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France

    Lyon, 1285-1530

    par Sarah Lynch ...
    Collections series Knowledge Communities
    The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw a marked increase in the availability of elementary and grammar education in Europe. In France, that rise took the form of a unique blend of trends also seen elsewhere in Europe, ranging from Church-dominated schools to independent schools and communal groups of teachers. Lyon, long a crossroad of ideas from north and south, was home to a particularly ... En savoir plus

    $91.99 CAD

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  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    par Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Demonic Possession and Exorcism

    In Early Modern France

    par Sarah Ferber ...
    This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which reached epidemic proportions in France. Catholics at the time believed that the Devil was everywhere present, in the rise of the heretics, in the activities of witches, and even in the bodies of pious young women. The rite of exorcism was intended to heal the ... En savoir plus

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor

    The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart

    par Sean L. Field ...
    On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite “called Porete,” a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she had written be confiscated. William next consigned Guiard of Cressonessart, an apocalyptic activist in ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Montaigne

    A Life

    par Philippe Desan ...
    Traduit par Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Corruption of Angels

    The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246

    par Mark Gregory Pegg ...
    On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians, blacksmiths and pregnant girls--in short, all men over fourteen and women over twelve--were ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Creating Cistercian Nuns

    The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne

    par Anne E. Lester ...
    In Creating Cistercian Nuns**, Anne E. Lester addresses a central issue in the history of the medieval church: the role of women in the rise of the religious reform movement of the thirteenth century.** Focusing on the county of Champagne in France, Lester reconstructs the history of the women's religious movement and its institutionalization within the Cistercian order.The common picture of the ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre

    The mysteries of a crime of state

    par Arlette Jouanna ...
    Traduit par Joseph Bergin ...
    On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France’s Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king’s council unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. Why was the celebration of ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305

    par Jean Dunbabin ...
    Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the Middle Ages explores the significance of the many cultural, religious and political exchanges between the two countries, arguing that the links were more diverse and stronger than simply the rulers' family connections. Jean ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Experiencing Exile

    Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680�1700

    par David van der Linden ...
    Collections series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
    The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic, Experiencing Exile examines how Huguenot refugees dealt with the complex realities of living as strangers abroad, and how they seized upon religion and ... En savoir plus

    $84.99 CAD

  • Publishing The Prince

    History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

    par Jacob Soll ...
    Collections series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356–1560

    par James B. Collins ...
    How does authority become power? How does power justify itself to achieve its ends? For over two hundred years, the Valois kings relied on a complex mixture of ideologies, ruling a monarchical commonwealth with a coherent theory of shared governance. Forged in the Hundred Years War, this commonwealth built on the defense of the public good (bien public) came undone both practically and ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD