"Our Sovereign's Gaze": Kings, Nobles, and State Formation in Seventeenth-Century France

This article traces a line of continuity between "traditional" and "modern" modalities of state power in seventeenth-century France. Beginning from a premise central to revisionist scholarship on "absolutism"--that the centralizing monarchy and the traditional nobility...

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Veröffentlicht in:French Historical Studies. - Society for French Historical Studies, 1958. - 18(1993), 2, Seite 396-415
1. Verfasser: Smith, Jay M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1993
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:French Historical Studies
Schlagworte:Behavioral sciences Political science Linguistics History