Society and Culture in Early Modern France
Davis, Natalie Zemon
These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars.
The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context o...
