French Absolutism: The Crucial Phase, 1620–1629

Provides a detailed analysis of the political, social and economic history of the France of Louis XIII.

A. D. Lublinskaya (Author), Brian Pearce (Translated by)

9780521088435, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2008

368 pages
23 x 16 x 2.1 cm, 0.54 kg

As an introduction to her detailed study Professor Lublinskaya presents a summary and critique of the whole 'general crisis' interpretation of seventeenth-century European history which is regularly a subject for heated debate among Western historians. However, it is as a specialist in the history of seventeenth-century France that Professor Lublinskaya approaches the problem of the general crisis. The major part of her book is a detailed analysis of the political, social and economic history of the France of Louis XIII - a crucial period for the development of the French monarchy.

Foreword J. H. Elliott
Translator's note
Publisher's note
Map of France in 1620
Introduction
1. The theory of general economic crisis in seventeenth-century Europe
2. The theory of general political revolution in seventeenth-century Europe
3. Fundamental features of French economic development between 1610 and 1629
4. The suppression of the Huguenot 'State within the State'
5. The financiers and the absolute monarchy
6. The first years of Richelieu's administration (1625–1627)
Conclusion
List of works and MSS cited
Index.

Subject Areas: History [HB]