This work considers how Frenchwomen participated in Christian religious practice during the sixteenth century, with their words and their actions. Using extensi

Diane Margolf looks at the Paris Chambre de l’Edit in this well-researched study about the special royal law court that adjudicated disputes between French Hu

This wide-ranging and authoritative book fully synthesizes the French experience of religious change in the period stretching between the Reformation and the ea

Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations--or do they lose their power and importance once th

These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France.