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Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France

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A collection of essays that examine intimacy and power in early modern French households, and explore how families reinvented themselves in response to changes in law, gender ideology, political culture, or patterns of consumption.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Making and Breaking Marriage: An Overview of Old Regime Marriage as a Social Practice

Suzanne Desan

2. Marriage Choice and Marital Success: Reasoning About Marriage, Love, and Happiness

Dena Goodman

3. Family Affairs: Wives, Credit, Consumption, and the Law in Old Regime France

Clare Crowston

4. Between State and Street: Witnesses and the Family Politics of Litigation in Early Modern France

Julie Hardwick

5. Marital Conflict in Political Context: Langeac vs. Chambonas, 1775

Jeffrey Merrick

6. Gender, Kin, and Guardianship in Early Modern Burgundy

Christopher Corley

7. On the Contested Margins of the Family: Bastardy and Legitimation by Royal Rescript in Eighteenth-Century France

Matthew Gerber

Suggested Readings

Contributors

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“This is one of those rare edited volumes greater than the sum of its parts. Each chapter is a fine work of historical synthesis, document analysis or close archival research. Yet, together, the essays paint a rich picture of marriage and family life in early modern France, uncovering startling new facets beneath old assumptions.”

—Jennifer J. Davis, European History Quarterly

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