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Bastards - Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
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Bastards - Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
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Children born out of wedlock were commonly stigmatized as
"bastards" in early modern France. Deprived of inheritance, they
were said to have neither kin nor kind, neither family nor nation.
But why was this the case? Gentler alternatives to "bastard"
existed in early modern French discourse, and many natural parents
voluntarily recognized and cared for their extramarital offspring.
Drawing upon a wide array of archival and published sources,
Matthew Gerber has reconstructed numerous disputes over the rights
and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in order to
illuminate the changing legal condition and practical treatment of
extramarital offspring over a period of two and half centuries. His
book reveals that the exclusion of extramarital offspring from the
family was perpetually contested in early modern France. Legal
debate over illegitimacy carried political implications for
France's dynastic monarchy. When Louis XIV, the Sun King, created a
political firestorm by declaring his own extramarital offspring to
be capable of inheriting the French crown, political theorists drew
upon precedents of private law to argue for or against the
exclusion of children born out of wedlock from the throne.
Conversely, lawyers and litigants frequently invoked political
interest in the course of private lawsuits involving extramarital
offspring. In tracing the evolution of early modern debates over
illegitimacy, Bastards offers a political history of the family
from the oblique perspective of those who were theoretically
excluded from it. With a cast of characters ranging from royal
bastards to foundlings, Bastards offers a broad exploration of the
relationship between social and political change in the early
modern era. It offers new insight into the changing nature of early
modern French law, revealing its evolving contribution to the
historical construction of both the family and the state.
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