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Languages : fr
Pages : 38

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Author: Andrew Pettegree
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047422449
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1638

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This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.

Author: Jotham Parsons
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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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.

Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Ole Peter Grell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351887866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies, with high-level research confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume counteracts this centrifugal trend and provides a broad perspective on the impact of the European reformation. The essays present new research from historians of politics, of the church and of belief. Their geographical scope ranges from Scotland and England via France and Germany to Transylvania and their chronological span from the 1520s to the 1690s Considering the impact of the Reformation on political culture and examining the relationship between rulers and ruled; the book also examines the church and its personnel, another sphere of life that was entirely transformed by the Reformation. Important aspects of knowledge and belief are discussed in terms of scientific knowledge and technological progress, juxtaposed with analyses of elite and popular belief, which demonstrates the limitations of Weber's notion of the disenchantment of the world. Together they indicate the diverse directions in which Reformation scholarship is now moving, while reminding us of the need to understand particular developments within a broader European context; demonstrating that movements for religious reform left no sphere of European life untouched.

Author: Andrew Pettegree
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004161872
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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A series of linked studies of European print culture of the sixteenth century, focusing particularly on France and the regional, provincial experience of print.

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 866

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Languages : fr
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Author: British Library
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Leonard N. Amico
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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