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The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France

By Julie Hardwick
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The Practice of Patriarchy examines the lives of notaries and their families in the French city of Nantes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Making creative use of judicial and notarial records, Julie Hardwick brings to life a little-known aspect of early modern culture: the daily experience of middling urban families—from work to family to neighborhood to involvement in local politics.

Hardwick explores the unique position of notaries as recorders and orderers of the hierarchi...

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