Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers, by Hilary J. Bernstein. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi, 313 pp. $57.50 US (cloth).

The study of urban politics and civic life is one of the most dynamic fields in early modern French history. Recent years have seen the appearance of a number of important works on a variety of topics: for example, William Beik's on seventeenth-century urban popular protest; Annette Finley-Croswhite's on Henry IV's policies towards French towns; and Guy Saupin's on the ...

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