The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century

by Pierre Goubert

Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French peasantry, and in this book he synthesises the work of a lifetime to produce a vivid, readable, and uniquely accessible account of rural life in seventeenth-century France. Much of the very latest scholarship is incorporated in Professor Goubert's survey, which examines not only such crucial external relationships as those between peasant and priest, that existed within the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521312698
• ISBN13: 9780521312691
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.7"