The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521312691)

Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French peasantry, and in this book he synthesises the work of a lifetime to produce a vivid, readable, and uniquely accessible account of rural life in seventeenth-century France. Much of the very latest scholarship is incorporated in Professor Goubert's survey, which examines not only such crucial external relationships as those between peasant and priest, that existed within the peasantry themselves. In clear and uncondescending prose Professor Goubert paints a broad picture of peasant life as it was lived from the cradle to the grave, and depicts above all the multi-faceted variety (whether regional, social, or economic) of pre-modern France. As a further aid to students this English-language edition also contains a new supplementary bibliography.

Author: Pierre Goubert
ISBN-10: 0521312698
ISBN-13: 9780521312691
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/26/1986
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.69h x 5.57w x 0.69d