French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century

Name: French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521312691

ISBN-10: 0521312698

ISBN-13: 9780521312691

Edition: 1986

Authors: Ian Patterson, Pierre Goubert

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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, 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…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/26/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



A bird's-eye view of the French countryside



Peasants and the land in the seventeenth century: possession and 'holdings'



Houses: outside and in



Birth and survival



Peasant marriage



The different types of peasant families



Daily bread



Labourers at work



The well-off and the wealthy: or from the farmer to the tax collector, by way of the money-lender



Vine-growers



Peasants-plus: or from the semi-artisan to the semi-shopkeeper, via the schoolmaster and various other figures



The peasant and his parish priest



The peasant and his seigneur



Peasant power



The peasants and taxation



Peasants in the revolts of the seventeenth century



Sundays and feast days



Death and the peasant


Bibliography and acknowledgements


Supplementary bibliography


Index