Search Results for: Patronage In Sixteenth And Seventeenth Century France

The dual themes of this volume are the characteristics of patronage relationships and their political uses in early modern France. The first essays provide an o

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

"Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printer

The fourteen essays in this collection explore the dominance of patronage in Renaissance politics, religion, theatre, and artistic life. Originally published in

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