The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 1986
ISBN: 978-0-521-26007-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 253 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 425 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goubert, Pierre

Weitere Mitwirkende

Patterson, Ian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A bird's-eye view of the French countryside; 2. Peasants and the land in the seventeenth century: possession and 'holdings'; 3. Houses: outside and in; 4. Birth and survival; 5. Peasant marriage; 6. The different types of peasant families; 7. Daily bread; 8. Labourers at work; 9. The well-off and the wealthy: or from the farmer to the tax collector, by way of the money-lender; 10. Vine-growers; 11. Peasants-plus: or from the semi-artisan to the semi-shopkeeper, via the schoolmaster and various other figures; 12. The peasant and his parish priest; 13. The peasant and his seigneur; 14. Peasant power; 15. The peasants and taxation; 16. Peasants in the revolts of the seventeenth century; 17. Sundays and feast days; 18. Death and the peasant.