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Uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society.
Synopsis
This book uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society. Professor Collins's main endeavour is to combine social and political/institutional history, so long separated in works on this field.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. The Breton economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 2. Elements of Breton society; 3. Institutional structures of political control - financial and judicial organisation; 4. The Estates of Brittany and the Crown, 1532-1626: the Crown and the Pays d'Etats; 5. The Estates of Brittany and the Crown, 1626-1675; 6. The burden of Breton taxation; 7. The problem of order; Conclusion; Tabular appendices.