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

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 continual religious strife and civil conflict between 1598...