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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana
Author: Governing Passions
Author: Mark GreengrassPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199214905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A major scholarly re-evaluation of the central period in the French 'wars of religion', concentrating on the reactions of France's governing groups to these wars and drawing extensively on sources not hitherto examined to illuminate the sense of crisis that existed among the French governing elite at this time.
Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres
Author: Publisher: Ed. de Bruxelles
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana
Author: Charles Spencer Earl of SunderlandPublisher:
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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France
Author: Jotham ParsonsPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Coinage and currency—abstract and socially created units of value and power—were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies centralized monetary administration, expanding its role in the emerging modern state during the sixteenth century and assuming new powers as an often controversial repository of theoretical and administrative expertise.The Cour des Monnaies, Parsons shows, played an important role in developing the contemporary understanding of money, as a source of both danger and opportunity at the center of economic and political life. More practically, the Monnaies led generally successful responses to the endemic inflation of the era and the monetary chaos of a period of civil war. Its work investigating and prosecuting counterfeiters shone light into a picaresque world of those who used the abstract and artificial nature of money for their own ends. Parsons's broad, multidimensional portrait of money in early modern France also encompasses the literature of the age, in which money's arbitrary and dangerous power was a major theme.
L'explication de L'Edit de Nantes, de M. Bernard
Author: Pierre SoulierThe Huth Library
Author: Henry HuthPublisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana. Sale Catalogue of the Truly and Very Extensive Library of Printed Books Known as the Sunderland Or Blenheim Library Comprising a Remarkable Collection of the Greek and Roman Classic Writers in First Early and Rare Editions. A Large Series of Early Printed Bibles and Testaments in Various Languages. A Few Ancient and Important Mss
Author: Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Louis XIV and the Origins of the Dutch War
Author: Paul SonninoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531344
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This stylish and highly entertaining account of the origins of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672 is based on massive archival researches covering twelve countries. Contrary to the accepted historical opinion that there was a meeting of minds within Louis XIV's conseil d'en haut over the desirability of the war, Professor Sonnino chronicles a story of bitter division, in the course of which the contrasting personalities of the king and of his most intimate advisors emerge in vivid detail. Racine once eulogized the war as a brilliantly executed venture which put the insolent Dutch in their place. Saint-Simon, on the other hand, saw it as the disastrous result of endemic jealousies, in which Le Tellier and Louvois sought to displace Colbert in Louis' affections. From these early views the modern consensus, in spite of occasional dissenters, has gradually evolved. Professor Sonnino, however, breaks through the maze of interpretations with decisive new evidence, and in an unusually clear and lively evocation of the emotional element which pervaded high policy, explains the many agonizing decisions that preceded one of the most dramatic conflicts of the seventeenth century.