Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France

by Brian Sandberg

Book Overview

How did warrior nobles' practices of violence shape provincial society and the royal state in early seventeenth-century France?

Warrior nobles frequently armed themselves for civil war in southern France during the troubled early seventeenth century. These bellicose nobles' practices of violence shaped provincial society and the royal state in early modern France. The southern French provinces of Guyenne and Languedoc suffered almost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421423987
• ISBN13: 9781421423982
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"