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  • Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France

    by Stephen D. White ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The essays in this volume discuss feuding and peacemaking in France during a period extending from the mid-10th to the early 12th century. They treat various aspects of so-called dispute-processing - a term coined by legal anthropologists to refer to the political processes and discursive practices through which conflict is mediated politically, socially, legally, and culturally. Each of the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe

    by Stephen D. White ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses that medieval nobles used to construct their relationships with kin ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Custom, Kinship, and Gifts to Saints

    The Laudatio Parentum in Western France, 1050-1150

    by Stephen D. White ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    White combines an intensive study of medieval law with insights from anthropology, religion, and social history to create a picture of French society in the Middle Ages which is impressive in its breadth and illuminating in its detail. By examining the practice whereby gifts of land were approved by the giver’s relatives, he suggests novel ways of looking at early medieval law, kinship, land ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Sir Edward Coke and "The Grievances of the Commonwealth," 1621-1628

    by Stephen D. White ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • On the Laws and Customs of England

    Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne

    Edited by Sally A. Scully, Thomas A. Green, Stephen D. White, Morris Arnold ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D. Thorne to the study of English legal history from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. The essays combine close study of legal texts and doctrines in their own setting with broader analysis of the interaction of legal and social change. Although ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Solar Cooling Design Guide

    Case Studies of Successful Solar Air Conditioning Design

    Edited by Daniel Mugnier, Daniel Neyer, Stephen D. White ...
    Series series Solar Heating and Cooling
    Solar cooling systems can be a cost-effective and environmentally attractive air-conditioning solution. The design of such systems, however, is complex. Research carried out under the aegis of the International Energy Agency's Solar Heating and Cooling Program has shown that there is a range of seemingly subtle design decisions that can impact significantly on the performance of solar cooling ... Read more

    $68.00 USD

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    Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution

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    Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

    by Roger Chartier ...
    Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane ...
    Series series Bicentennial reflections on the French Revolution
    Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.”Chartier has set ... Read more

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  • Montaigne

    A Life

    by Philippe Desan ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... Read more

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  • Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War

    by Craig Taylor ...
    Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrutinized the martial qualities expected of knights and soldiers. They questioned when knights and men-at-arms could ... Read more

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  • The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356–1560

    by James B. Collins ...
    How does authority become power? How does power justify itself to achieve its ends? For over two hundred years, the Valois kings relied on a complex mixture of ideologies, ruling a monarchical commonwealth with a coherent theory of shared governance. Forged in the Hundred Years War, this commonwealth built on the defense of the public good (bien public) came undone both practically and ... Read more

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  • Making Toleration

    The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution

    by Scott Sowerby ...
    Series Book 181 - Harvard Historical Studies
    In the reign of James II, minority groups from across the religious spectrum, led by the Quaker William Penn, rallied together under the Catholic King James in an effort to bring religious toleration to England. Known as repealers, these reformers aimed to convince Parliament to repeal laws that penalized worshippers who failed to conform to the doctrines of the Church of England. Although the ... Read more

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