Reconstructing the collective experience of an entire provincial
nobility over a period of more than two centuries, James Wood finds
current theories about the early modernFrench nobility inadequate.
Concentrating on socio-economic structures and changes, he analyzes
the composition and way of life of all the nobles--poor and
prosperous, obscure and notable--who lived in the election of
Bayeux between the mid-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries.
Combining a regional historical perspective with the methods of
quantitative social history, Professor Wood demonstrates the
broader significance of his findings for general historical
interpretations of the nobility and of early modern France as
well.
Originally published in 1980.
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