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.

These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France.

In this groundbreaking new study, Kate van Orden examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in ear

In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things