This book analyses the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of the absoluti

This book analyses the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of the absoluti

In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent fa

A major new textbook examining the nature of the state and the monarchy in early modern France.