Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648 (Short Oxford History of France) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198731655 ISBN 13: 9780198731658

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This volume brings together an international team of experts who have synthesized and summarized the most recent research on French history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1660, each chapter focuses on a specific area of French history: politics and the state, the economy, society and culture, religion, gender and the family, and France's burgeoning overseas empire, which was constructed in this period. The result is the most up-to-date synthesis of this period, showing how recent scholarship has significantly revised the traditional narrative of French history.

About this title

About the Author:

Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University. His work has won prizes from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, the National Huguenot Society, and the Southern Historical Association. He has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies, and in 1999 was the president of the Society for French Historical Studies. He has previously taught at Harvard and Vanderbilt universities.

Review:

this book represents a welcome contribution to the existing literature...recent scholarship is effectively incorporated into a fluent and accessible narrative. Above all the volume displays a remarkable coherence, in part because of the decision to focus on the sixteenth-century wars of religion, and the prominence given to religion more generally...this volume is set to become a standard text for any course on the period' Penny Roberts, University of Warwick, History

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0198731655
• ISBN 13: 9780198731658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Holt Mack P.