War and Government in the French Provinces

by David Potter and David Linley Potter

Book Overview

Few studies of the history of provincial France have hitherto spanned the conventional medieval/early-modern divide, and David Potter's detailed examination of war and government in Picardy, a region of France hitherto neglected by historians, has much to say about the development of French absolutism. Picardy emerged as a province after the campaigns of 1470-1477, and its experience of the first period of absolutism provides an enlightening contrast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521893003
• ISBN13: 9780521893008
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"