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Warrior Pursuits - Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Paperback)
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Warrior Pursuits - Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Paperback)
Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
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Warrior nobles frequently armed themselves for civil war in
southern France during the troubled early seventeenth century.
These bellicose nobles' practices of violence shaped provincial
society and the royal state in early modern France. The southern
French provinces of Guyenne and Languedoc suffered almost continual
religious strife and civil conflict between 1598 and 1635,
providing an excellent case for investigating the dynamics of early
modern civil violence. Warrior Pursuits constructs a cultural
history of civil conflict, analyzing in detail how provincial
nobles engaged in revolt and civil warfare during this period.
Brian Sandberg's extensive archival research on noble families in
these provinces reveals that violence continued to be a way of life
for many French nobles, challenging previous scholarship that
depicts a progressive "civilizing" of noble culture. Sandberg
argues that southern French nobles engaged in warrior
pursuits-social and cultural practices of violence designed to
raise personal military forces and to wage civil warfare in order
to advance various political and religious goals. Close
relationships between the profession of arms, the bonds of
nobility, and the culture of revolt allowed nobles to regard their
violent performances as "heroic gestures" and "beautiful warrior
acts." Warrior nobles represented the key organizers of civil
warfare in the early seventeenth century, orchestrating all aspects
of the conduct of civil warfare-from recruitment to
combat-according to their own understandings of their warrior
pursuits. Building on the work of Arlette Jouanna and other
historians of the nobility, Sandberg provides new perspectives on
noble culture, state development, and civil warfare in early modern
France. French historians and scholars of the Reformation and the
European Wars of Religion will find Warrior Pursuits engaging and
insightful.
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