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Bastards : politics, family, and law in early modern France / Matthew Gerber.
LIBRA HQ999.F7 G47 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerber, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illegitimacy--France--History.
- Illegitimacy.
- Illegitimate children--Legal status, laws, etc--France--History.
- Illegitimate children.
- Illegitimate children--Legal status, laws, etc.
- History.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- x, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction : illegitimacy and the political history of the family
- Bastardy in sixteenth-century French legal doctrine and practice
- Jurisprudential reform of illegitimacy in seventeenth-century France
- Royal bastardy & dynastic crisis
- State expansion, social practice, and the quandaries of legal unification
- Redefining social interest: the eighteenth-century foundling crisis
- Illegitimacy and legal change in the French Enlightenment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199755370
- 019975537X
- OCLC:
- 727610582
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