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A History of France, 1460–1560

The Emergence of a Nation State

  • Textbook
  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. David Potter
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Part of the book series: New Studies in Medieval History (NSMH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: French Society and its Identity

    • David Potter
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Monarchy: Ideology, Presentation and Ritual

    • David Potter
    Pages 29-56

  4. The Court of France: from Louis XI to Henri II

    • David Potter
    Pages 57-89

  5. The King, his Council and the Secretariat

    • David Potter
    Pages 90-109

  6. The Crown, Administration and the Provinces

    • David Potter
    Pages 110-135

  7. The Taxation System and its Burdens

    • David Potter
    Pages 136-164

  8. The French Nobility in the Renaissance

    • David Potter
    Pages 165-206

  9. The French Church in the Age of Reform

    • David Potter
    Pages 207-250

  10. French Foreign Policy, 1460–1560

    • David Potter
    Pages 251-283

  11. Conclusion

    • David Potter
    Pages 284-290

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 291-438
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A survey of French history from the reign of Louis XI to the outbreak of the Wars of Religion that isolates some of the controversial theories of the period: state building, nobility and clientage and the Reformation and discusses them with full attention to the regional diversity of France. It also introduces the reader to recent research on the court and government set in the context of the basic social and economic movements of the period. It is argued that the basic identity of France as a nation was reinforced under the aegis of monarchical legitimacy backed by the nobility and the church, setting the pattern for the rest of the Ancien Regime.

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