Author: Pierre Goubert

Publisher: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9782735101344

Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French peasantry, and in this book he synthesises the work of a lifetime to produce a vivid, readable, and uniquely accessible account of rural life in seventeenth-century France. Much of the very latest scholarship is incorporated in Professor Goubert's survey, which examines not only such crucial external relationships as those between peasant and priest, and peasant and seigneur, but also the no-less-important gradations that existed within the peasantry themselves. In clear and uncondescending prose Professor Goubert paints a broad picture of peasant life as it was lived from the cradle to the grave, and depicts above all the multi-faceted variety (whether regional, social, or economic) of premodern France. As a further aid to students this English-language edition also contains a new supplementary bibliography. Book jacket.