Bibliograph

Bastards, politics, family, and law in early modern France, Matthew Gerber

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Bastards, politics, family, and law in early modern France, Matthew Gerber

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bastards

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

727610582

Responsibility statement

Matthew Gerber

Sub title

politics, family, and law in early modern France

Table Of Contents

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

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