A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown extended its control over the provinces and laid the found

A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it de

A unique study in the culture of seventeenth-century French science, Patronage and Royal Science in Seventeenth-Century France focuses on the brief revolutionar

The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were built to con

This thematically organised text provides a compelling introduction and guide to the key problems and issues of this highly controversial century. Offering a ge