From valor to pedigree : ideas of nobility in France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / by Ellery Schalk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schalk, Ellery, 1938- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobility--France--History--16th century.

Nobility.

Nobility--France--History--17th century.

France--Social life and customs--1328-1600.

France.

France--Social life and customs--17th century.

France--Social life and customs--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1986]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular rebellions and the appearance of the absolutist state.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE. Medieval Views in the Sixteenth Century

1. The Military Profession As a Social Class in the Sixteenth Century

2. Nobility As Virtue and the Medieval Origins of the "Feudal-Military" View

3. The Ancient and Renaissance Italian Traditions and the Continued Predominance of the Medieval View

PART TWO. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHANGE

4. Troubles of the 1570s and 1580s and the Beginnings of the Prise de Conscience

5. The Crucial Years: The Early 1590s

PART THREE. THE MODERN VIEW EMERGES

6. The Separation of Virtue and Nobility and The Absolutist State in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

7. Old and New Marques de Noblesse and the Diminished Importance of Nobility in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

8. Education, the Academies, and the Emergence of the New Image of the Cultured Noble-Aristocrat

9. Conclusions and Perspectives

Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 223-231.

ISBN:

9780691638997

0691638993

9780691610948

0691610940

9781400854325

1400854326

OCLC:

884013582