Bastards : politics, family, and law in early modern France / Matthew Gerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerber, Matthew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illegitimacy--France--History.

Illegitimacy.

Illegitimate children--Legal status, laws, etc--France--History.

Illegitimate children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracing the historical evolution of legal debates over the rights and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in early modern France, this text offers a political history of the family from the oblique perspective of those who were theoretically excluded from it.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; A Note on the Text; Introduction: Illegitimacy and the Political History of the Family; PART ONE: STIGMATIZING THE BASTARD; 1. Bastardy in Sixteenth-Century French Legal Doctrine and Practice; 2. Jurisprudential Reform of Illegitimacy in Seventeenth-Century France; 3. Royal Bastardy and Dynastic Crisis; PART TWO: DESTIGMATIZING THE NATURAL CHILD; 4. State Expansion, Social Practice, and the Quandaries of Legal Unification; 5. Redefining Social Interest: The Eighteenth-Century Foundling Crisis; 6. Illegitimacy and Legal Change in the French Enlightenment

Conclusion: The End of BastardyAppendix; Notes; Bibliography ; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 5, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613423801

1-283-42380-4

0-19-992106-7

OCLC:

773932408