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20 January 2006
BOOKS IN ENGLISH
Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Volume 2 only. ODD VOLUME. NY; Harper & Row, 1973. 718 pp. Extensive notes & bibliography. hardcover, some soiling on page edges, else very good w/good dj. OP; $8.00Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Harper Torch, 1978. 365 pp. W/extensive notes & bibliography. Trade paperback, near mint. OP; $12.00
Duby, Georges. The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France. NY; Pantheon, 1983. 311 pp. W/extensive notes. Hardcover, slightly skewed, page edges soiled, text clean, fair overall; fair dj. OP; $17.00
Gager, Kristin E. Blood Ties and Fictive Ties: Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France. Princeton UP, 1996. 197 pp. "Gager brings to light evidence showing how married couples and single men and women from the artisan neighborhoods in 16th- and 17th-century Paris managed to adopt children as their legal heirs. In so doing, she offers a new, richly detailed portrait of family life, civil law, and public assistance in Paris." Extensive bibliography. hardcover, new. In print at $47.50; $7.00
Greenshields, Malcolm. An Economy of Violence in Early Modern France: Crime & Justice in the Haute Auvergne, 1587-1664. Penn State UP, 1994. 262 pp. "Takes the reader to a relatively little known area of early modern France to examine the behavior, attitudes, and environment of its inhabitants. It examines the uses and characteristics of violence and discusses what violence can tell us about the mentality of the people of the region. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the people of the Haute Auvergne kept their troubles to themselves. In this remote mountain region, the offical forces of law and order were small in number and the mounted police could seldom penetrate very deep into the life of rural communities. When they did intervene, they left a trail of evidence that enables us to catch a glimpse of a private world characterized by the use of violence. . . . Greenshields argues that violence was often a form of private justice or vengeance that affected all levels of society. . . . In response, the criminal courts relied on rituals of humiliation and public displays of power to establish order, although official justice was often ineffective." Extensive notes & bibliography Hardcover, new w/dj. In print at $55.00; $12.00
Holt, Mack P., ed. Society & Institutions in Early Modern France. Georgia, 1991. 242 pp. "This collection of 11 essays brings together some of the most recent scholarship on what has become a growing concern among historians of early modern France--the interconnections between political and social history. All the essays deal in some way with the relationship between the state and the society on which that state rested in 16th- and 17th-century France. A common focus of the essays is a reevaluation of absolutism--the emergence in the 17th century of a royal French government more centralized and more powerful than that of the 1500s." Extensive footnotes. Trade paperback, new. In print at $20.00; $3.00
Musée Nôtre-Dame. Reflets des Grands Siècles à Nôtre-Dame. Paris; Musée Notre-Dame, 1963. 73-pp exhibition catalogue issued for the 800th anniversary of the cathedral. 11 b/w plates. Paperback, light wear to wraps, else good. $12.00
Tableau] Tableau de la Littérature Française. 2 volumes. Paris; Gallimard, 1939 (vol 2) & 1962 (vol 1). 653 + 489 pp. Volume I: De Rutebeuf à Descartes; Volume II: De Corneille à Chénier. Over 100 articles, by leading scholars, on French literary figures and styles from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Both hardcover but bound in different styles: volume I is bound in publisher's cloth binding, while volume II is bound in a heavier library cloth binding. Both in excellent condition aside from a little browning to pages of vol. II. $45.00
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