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	France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The heart of France N of the Loire River is the province of Île-de-France, which occupies the greater part of the Paris basin, a fertile depression drained by the Seine and Marne rivers.
		In 1328, Philip VI (1328–50), of the house of Valois, a younger branch of the Capetians, succeeded to the throne.
		France was beset by a host of problems in 1995, including severe floods and terror bombings; the government faced international criticism for its nuclear testing in the South Pacific, which it resumed after a three-year moratorium; and the country was paralyzed late in the year by a long transportation workers strike.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/France.html (6467 words)

	Early Modern France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early Modern France is the portion of French history that falls in the early modern period from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century (or from the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution).
		France's pacification under Henry IV laid much of the ground for the beginnings of France's rise to European hegemony, although at his death in 1610, the Regency of his wife Marie de Medici suffered from internal conflicts with the noble families.
		France was expansive during all but the end of the seventeenth century: the French began trading in India and Madagascar, founded Canada and penetrated the North American Great Lakes and Mississippi, established plantation economies in the West Indies and extended their trade contacts in the Levant and enlarged their merchant marine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_Modern_France (2378 words)

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		We must seek to understand the nature of early modern torture in order to understand the development of opposition to torture among Enlightenment writers including Beccaria and Voltaire, and in order to understand the efficacy of arguments based in that opposition in the modern world.
		Early modern judicial torture was in fact a legal practice, constrained by rule and custom and reserved for a small minority of serious criminal cases.
		The early modern practice of torture was therefore distinct from most, if not all, modern practices of torture in its legal status and in the careful constraints on its use.
	internationalstudies.uchicago.edu /torture/abstracts/lisasilverman.html (1328 words)

	Early modern Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The early modern period is characterized by the rise to importance of science and increasingly rapid technological progress, secularized civic politics and the nation state.
		The beginning of the early modern period is not clear-cut, but is generally accepted to be in the late 15th century or early 16th century.
		The expression "early modern" is sometimes, and incorrectly, used as a substitute for the term Renaissance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_Modern (638 words)

	The struggle for control of childbirth in Early Modern France
		In her presentation entitled "Picturing Midwifery in Seventeenth-Century France," Dr. Lianne McTavish of the Department of History traced back for her audience the long way that obstetrics has had to travel to be looked upon as a complex science deserving of respect.
		The bulk of Dr. McTavish's research rests upon early modern obstetrical manuals, which were mostly written by male surgeons, although a few were produced by famous female midwives as well.
		In early modern France, surgeons were close to the bottom of the medical pyramid: they were higher up than midwives, who received their training from fellow midwives, but were below the physicians, who never touched the patient, and had received theoretical rather than practical training.
	www.unb.ca /bruns/9697/features/Issue22/mctavish.html (683 words)

	H-France Home Page
		He has held a Bourse Chateaubraind and a Lingelbach Fellowship for study in France and currently is assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, where he teaches courses on early modern France and Europe, the Scientific Revolution, and labor and economic history.
		He is preparing a book manuscript on the changing relationship between state and society in France between 1700 and the 1750s, focused on the practices of economic policy-making and the use of economic language.
		Her book Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1995; she also has written numerous book reviews and forthcoming articles in French Historical Studies and The Sixteenth Century Journal.
	www.h-france.net /reviews/welcome.html (569 words)

	Malcolm Ross Greenshields: An Economy of Violence in Early Modern France
		An Economy of Violence in Early Modern France, takes the reader to a relatively little known area of early modern France to examine the behavior, attitudes, and environment of its inhabitants.
		In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the people of the Haute Auvergne kept their troubles to themselves.
		This study thus describes a significant stage in the movement toward a modern sensibility and brings to light a society and phenomenon that have previously received little attention.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-01009-6.html (432 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Early Modern France, 1560-1715 (Opus Books): Books: Robin Briggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Based on the latest research on both sides of the Channel and of the Atlantic, Early Modern France provides a balanced, well-written and highly perceptive account of an important period in French history and will be read with pleasure by teachers and students alike.
		Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (Cambridge History of Europe) by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
		Solid without being sparkling, this is a concise history of France from the Wars of Religion to the death of Louis XIV.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Early-Modern-France-1560-1715-Books/dp/0192890409 (545 words)

	REINVENTION OF OBSCENITY: SEX, LIES, AND TABLOIDS IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE, THE Comparative Literature - Find Articles
		It is not just that, with the advent of the modern author as an autonomous center of cultural power, writers become a target of state control; the institution of authorship is largely constituted by its new legal status and the bureaucracy designed to enforce it.
		Obscenus covered everything from the "ill-omened" or "inauspicious" to the "filthy" or "indecent"; and when applied to sexual matters, where the aim was not simply to lampoon personal coarseness and folly, we get traditional "bawdy": the "priapic" celebration of "polymorphous" male desires whose comic emblem is the outsized phallus borne by the satyr-god Priapus.
		In addition to focusing on female body parts and desires, obscenity accordingly aims at an increasingly lower class public of which Claude Le Petit, a tailor's son burnt at the stake in 1662 by order of the civil authorities, is the luckless embodiment.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_200407/ai_n9457474 (734 words)

	Tricolor Books -- 17th-Century France
		An Economy of Violence in Early Modern France: Crime & Justice in the Haute Auvergne, 1587-1664.
		In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the people of the Haute Auvergne kept their troubles to themselves.
		In this remote mountain region, the offical forces of law and order were small in number and the mounted police could seldom penetrate very deep into the life of rural communities.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/tricolorbks/cata.17cFr.html (841 words)

	SSRN-An Anthropometric History of Early-Modern France by John Komlos
		The physical stature of men increased until the birth cohorts of the 1740s, to decline thereafter, in keeping with the European pattern, although the decline of the second half of the 18th century was not more severe than elsewhere in Europe.
		France was not suffering from a prolonged period of malnutrition of unusual severity, and the threat of a Malthusian crisis was mild compared to 17th-century conditions.
		Hence, the anthropometric evidence supports the notion that the French economic malaise was not a fundamental cause of the political turmoil.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=464061 (390 words)

	Sarah Hanley - Department of History - The University of Iowa
		Sarah Hanley is principally interested in the evolution of law, gender and the state in early modern and modern Europe.
		Her book, The 'Lit de Justice' of the Kings of France: Constitutional Ideology in Legend, Ritual, and Discourse (1983), was an innovative study of the interplay of law, pomp, and power in Renaissance and early modern France.
		Some of her recent work includes essays on family formation and state building in early modern France and on the use of film in the teaching of European history.
	www.uiowa.edu /~history/People/hanley.html (1041 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> France
		What is certain is that, as always, France will continue to forge its own distinctive formations of glbtq sexuality that may correspond in some respects with those of Anglo-American societies but differ in many others.
		André Baudry, as leader of the French homophile movement from the early 1950s into the 1980s, was the principal spokesman for homosexuals in France before the rise of gay liberation in the 1970s.
		One of France's leading lesbian theorists and political activists, Geneviève Pastre is a writer and publisher who has made lesbian feminism the root of her political and literary work.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/france,3.html (1150 words)

	H-Net Review: Hilary Bernstein on Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brennan's particular focus (despite the title of the book), is not on the entire wine trade of France, but on the domestic, interregional trade originating in Champagne and Burgundy and serving the growing Parisian market in wines in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
		In fact, by the early eighteenth century, indignation ran high against the provincial brokers and their apparent monopoly of the wine trade.
		Modern wines were thus first produced for an export market, in which brokers had finally taken on the role of wholesale merchants.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6423897412651 (1675 words)

	Early Modern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Entitled 'Governing Passions': the reformation of the kingdom of France, 1576-1586, it examines the intellectual assumptions and political dilemmas that faced French notables in the midst of the French civil wars of the later sixteenth century.
		It uses the extensive, surviving evidence of their speeches and memoranda to indicate that there was an extensive debate about the need to reform the kingdom and that the debate was underpinned by assumptions that are very revealing about why they thought the civil wars had occurred in the first place.
		He particularly welcomes postgraduate enquiries relating to the history of France in the sixteenth century and the religious impact of religious change in sixteenth-century Europe.
	www.shef.ac.uk /history/staff/early_modern/mark_greengrass.html (730 words)

	Agrarian Changes in Early Modern France
		(a) Louis Henry, 'The Population of France in the Eighteenth Century,' pp.
		Paul Butel, 'France, the Antilles, and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Renewals of Foreign Trade,' in James D. Tracy, ed., The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350 - 1750 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp.
		Wantje Fritschy, 'Taxation in Britain, France, and the Netherlands in the Eighteenth Century,' Economic and Social History in the Netherlands, 2 (1990).
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~munro5/2AGRFRAN2.htm (7107 words)

	Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France
		This one had more complex effects on the local economy, because it involved the development of wines whose qualities could not be easily reproduced (that was the case for both Champagne and Burgundy).
		Here brokers enjoyed some early profits from finding the demand for that wine, but in time much of the final value of that wine would be transferred to the owners of the land.
		For the past several hundred years at least, France has been a battlefield between the efforts of quality wine producers to limit imitation and the efforts of others to make more of what is desired.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0126.shtml (1212 words)

	bibliography
		Introduction to Modern France 1500-1640: An Essay in Historical Psychology.
		All manners of food : eating and taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the present.
		This source cannot be relied on without corrobation from another source (the Victorian author politely omits codpieces from his drawings, for example), but the line drawings are easy to reproduce and without copyrights.
	www.lepg.org /biblio.htm (959 words)

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		After surveying some backgrounds in early Stuart Court culture (patronage poetry and masques), we will concentrate on the writings of the 1640s and l650s, the most neglected decades in early modern British literary history.
		She is the author of The Land and the Loom: Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800 (Durham: Duke UP, 1993) and several articles on guild and agrarian rituals and practices in early modern France.
		At the graduate level she regularly teaches the History Department's required Early Modern Core Course in rotation with Professor Charles Stinger and in collaboration with Professors James Bono and Jonathan Dewald, as well as occasional special topics courses.
	wings.buffalo.edu /AandL/english/programs/earlymod.html (4444 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Social Conditions in 17th Century Fra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The authorities in Paris are trying to send back the peasants to gather in the corn; but as soon as it is reaped the marauders come to slay and steal, and disperse all in a general rout.
		From Cecile Augon, Social France in the XVIIthe Century, (London: Methuen, 1911), pp.
		The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/17france-soc.html (529 words)

	EMF: Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A themed, refereed annual, EMF: Studies in Early Modern France first appeared in 1994 as a sequel to Continuum: Problems in French Literature from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment (New York: AMS Press, 1989-93).
		The aim of the publications' founding editor, D. Rubin, was to identify broad critical issues and provide a venue for fully developed essays written from a variety of viewpoints and using a broad spectrum of methods.
		EMF Critiques (1994-) is a series of carefully selected and meticulously edited monographs and collections, open to traditional as well as cutting-edge subjects and approaches.
	www.unl.edu /EMF/content/pubs.html (156 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Early Modern France, 1560-1715
		In the OPUS series, second revised edition of a history of France from the Wars of Religion to the death of Louis XIV.
		A clear but economical narrative of the major political events is combined with an analysis of the long-term factors which decisively moulded the evolution of both state and society.
		The Government of France, 1598-1715: i) Henri IV to Richelieu, 1598-1624; ii) The Ministry of Richelieu; iii) The Regency, The Fronde, and The Ministry of Cardinal Mazarin; iv) The Personal Rule of Louis XIV; 4.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/?whatfor=0192892843 (220 words)

	Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France (0719062861) BROOMHALL - Manchester University Press
		She argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change.
		She furthermore examines how a focus on female practitioners, who cut across most sectors of early modern medical practice, can reveal the multifaceted phenomenon of these negotiations for authority.
		Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France skilfully combines new and detailed research with a clear presentation of the existing literature of women's medical work, making it invaluable to students of gender and medical history.
	www.palgrave-usa.com /catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0719062861 (659 words)

	Changing Identities in Early Modern France by Michael Wolfe(Editor), New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0822319136
		Emf Studies in Early Modern France: Signs of the E...
		Emf: Studies in Early Modern France : Rethinking C...
		Emf: Studies in Early Modern France : Utopia 1 : 1...
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0822319136.html (318 words)

	Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France (1553-1715)
		As an aesthetic notion and literary genre, tragedy has enjoyed a privileged place in French culture, particularly during the early modern period.
		According to Jean Rohou: “Tragic is the misery inherent in being, constitutive of the human condition and personality, insurmountable outside of a transformation that is impossible at first sight.” The tragic manifests not only in tragedy, but in funeral orations, novels, theoretical arguments, poetry, music, visual art, and even comedy.
		What fundamental elements of the tragic reflect the inherent instability of the human condition, and to what end were the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic appropriated in early modern France?
	web.gc.cuny.edu /French/events/tragedyconference.html (260 words)

	early-modern-france
		The Seminar on Early Modern France, established in September 2005, is the continuation of an earlier group, the "Early Modern Salon", which started informally in 1992 and met regularly at the Maison Française.
		The Salon was originally a reading group comprised of junior faculty and graduate students from French, with additional members from History and English.
		The focus of the seminar is the cultural and intellectual history of early modern France (from 1500 to 1800) and the approach is interdisciplinary.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/seminars/seminars/history/seminar-folder/early-modern-france.html (164 words)

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