A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France.

A major new textbook examining the nature of the state and the monarchy in early modern France.

Natural History in Early Modern France offers a longue durée account of recurring poetic structures of the genre through case studies spanning from the Renaiss

This book analyses the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of the absoluti

The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the a