Enlightened Feudalism

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"By situating the local court within a wide range of para-judicial institutions and behaviors, Hayhoe presents a new vision of village society, one in which com

Strangers and Neighbours

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Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short

The Husband's Story

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This - as only Norman Collins can tell it - is the story of Stanley Pitts, a Contracts Filing Clerk in the Admiralty, a small man - small in stature, small in a

The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789

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This book explores the French monarchy's role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm between 1670 and 1789.

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

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Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in