Renaissance and Reformation France

Written by an internatinal team of experts, this book takes a topical and thematic approach to French history from 1500 to 1660. Chapters focus on politics and the state, the economy, society and culture, religion, gender and the family, and France's overseas empire, and as a whole provide a coherent narrative of French history from the advent of the Reformation, through the civil wars of the second half of the sixteenth century, to the Fronde.