HOLT:RENAISSANCE & REFORMATION FRANCE 1500-1648 SOHF PAPER: 1500-1648

by Holt

This volume brings together an international team of experts who have synthesized and summarized the most recent research on French history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1660, each chapter focuses on a specific area of French politics and the state, the economy, society and culture, religion, gender and the family, and France's burgeoning overseas empire, which was constructed in this period. The result is the most up-to-date synthesis of this period, showing how recent scholarship has significantly revised the traditional narrative of French history.

Genres: History, Academic

279 pages, Paperback

First published October 3, 2002

Reviews

[David]

boring like any textbook but concise and useful

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very clear and thorough. While the near-exclusive focus on the Wars of Religion is understandable, it does make this book more a history of the Reformation in France than a history of Reformation France properly speaking. It would have been nice to have had a little bit more detail on developments outside the religious sphere - even if, as the nomenclature of the period suggests, these were not central

[Heather Stein · Rating 2 out of 5]

An okay overview dealing with the question of why, when in 1500 it looked as if France would be the dominant political player for the upcoming century, England and the Netherlands took the lead. Answers lie in the Wars of Religion and the monarchy's fiscal policy focusing on military campaigns paid for with credit.

[Nicole]

History class reading material.

[Lynda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent