Bastards : politics, family, and law in early modern France

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Gerber, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012
Schlagworte:Illegitimacy Illegitimate children Frankreich Nichteheliches Kind Rechtsstellung Geschichte
Umfang:X, 274 S.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : illegitimacy and the political history of the family
  • Bastardy in sixteenth-century French legal doctrine and practice
  • Jurisprudential reform of illegitimacy in seventeenth-century France
  • Royal bastardy & dynastic crisis
  • State expansion, social practice, and the quandaries of legal unification
  • Redefining social interest: the eighteenth-century foundling crisis
  • Illegitimacy and legal change in the French Enlightenment.