Historical Communities
Historical Communities

Author: Hilary J. Bernstein

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-01-25

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9004426477

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This book reveals the importance of urban history writing in early modern France for individual towns and the French kingdom. It demonstrates how local scholars developed useful historical narratives, interacted within the Republic of Letters, and created a French identity.

The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian
The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian

Author: Dominique Barthélemy

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780801475603

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Dominique Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of France around the year 1000, challenging the traditional view that France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium which ushered in feudalism.