THE FRENCH PEASANTRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY by Pierre Goubert, Ian Patterson (Trans) ( 9780521312691 )

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THE FRENCH PEASANTRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

By:

Pierre Goubert, Ian Patterson (Trans)

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0521312698

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

26 June, 1986

Pages:

256

Translated from:

French

Description:

This is an account of rural life in 17th-century France. It examines crucial external relationships such as those between peasant and priest, and the relationships that existed within the peasantry themselves. The book paints a picture of peasant life as it was lived from the cradle to the grave.

Synopsis:

Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French peasantry, and in this book he synthesises the work of a lifetime to produce a vivid, readable, and uniquely accessible account of rural life in seventeenth-century France. Much of the very latest scholarship is incorporated in Professor Goubert's survey, which examines not only such crucial external relationships as those between peasant and priest, that existed within the peasantry themselves. In clear and uncondescending prose Professor Goubert paints a broad picture of peasant life as it was lived from the cradle to the grave, and depicts above all the multi-faceted variety (whether regional, social, or economic) of pre-modern France. As a further aid to students this English-language edition also contains a new supplementary bibliography.

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