Crown and nobility in early modern France

Donna Bonahan

This book analyses the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of the absolutist state in France have challenged the orthodox vision of the interaction between the crown and elite society. By focusing on the struggle of central government to control the periphery, Bohanan links the literature on collaboration, patronage and taxation with research on the social origins and structure of provincial nobilities. Three provinical examples, Provence, Dauphine and Brittany, illustrate the ways in which elites organised and mobilised by vertical ties (ties of dependency based on patronage) were co-opted or subverted by the crown. The monarchy's success in raising more money from these pays d'etats depended on its ability to juggle a set of different strategies, each conceived according to the particularity of the social, political and institutional context of the province. Bohanan shows that the strategies and expedients employed by the crown varied from province to province; conceived on an individual basis, they bear the signs of ad hoc responses rather than a gradnoise plan to centralise.

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This book analyses the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of the absolutist state in France have challenged the orthodox vision of the interaction between the crown and elite society. By focusing on the struggle of central government to control the periphery, Bohanan links the literature on collaboration, patronage and taxation with research on the social origins and structure of provincial nobilities. Three provinical examples, Provence, Dauphine and Brittany, illustrate the ways in which elites organised and mobilised by vertical ties (ties of dependency based on patronage) were co-opted or subverted by the crown. The monarchy's success in raising more money from these pays d'etats depended on its ability to juggle a set of different strategies, each conceived according to the particularity of the social, political and institutional context of the province. Bohanan shows that the strategies and expedients employed by the crown varied from province to province; conceived on an individual basis, they bear the signs of ad hoc responses rather than a gradnoise plan to centralise.

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[目次]

  • Introduction Nobility: Metamorphosis Crown: Statebuilding Provence: The Opportunities of Factionalism Dauphine: The Potential in Class Conflict Brittany: The Limits of Elite Solidarity Conclusion Bibliography Index

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[目次]

  • Introduction Nobility: Metamorphosis Crown: Statebuilding Provence: The Opportunities of Factionalism Dauphine: The Potential in Class Conflict Brittany: The Limits of Elite Solidarity Conclusion Bibliography Index

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書名 Crown and nobility in early modern France
著作者等 Bohanan, Donna
シリーズ名 European history in perspective
出版元 Palgrave
刊行年月 2001
ページ数 x, 194 p.
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 0333609727
0333609719
NCID BA5585339X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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