Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France

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"A collection of essays that examine intimacy and power in early modern French households, and explore how families reinvented themselves in response to changes in law, gender ideology, political culture, or patterns of consumption"--Provided by publisher.
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"A collection of essays that examine intimacy and power in early modern French households, and explore how families reinvented themselves in response to changes in law, gender ideology, political culture, or patterns of consumption"--Provided by publisher.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780271034720
  • Publisher: Penn State University Press
  • Publication date: 10/30/2012
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 1,283,367
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet the Author

Suzanne Desan is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Jeffrey Merrick is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

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Table of Contents

1 Making and breaking marriage : an overview of Old Regime marriage as a social practice Suzanne Desan Desan, Suzanne 1

2 Marriage choice and marital success : reasoning about marriage, love, and happiness Dena Goodman Goodman, Dena 26

3 Family affairs : wives, credit, consumption, and the law in Old Regime France Clare Crowston Crowston, Clare 62

4 Between state and street : witnesses and the family politics of litigation in early modern France Julie Hardwick Hardwick, Julie 101

5 Marital conflict in political context : Langeac vs. Chambonas, 1775 Jeffrey Merrick Merrick, Jeffrey 137

6 Gender, kin, and guardianship in early modern Burgundy Christopher Corley Corley, Christopher 183

7 On the contested margins of the family : bastardy and legitimation by royal rescript in eighteenth-century France Matthew Gerber Gerber, Matthew 223

Suggested readings 265

Contributors 269

Index 271

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