
Pre-Owned Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715 (Hardcover) by Jonathan Dewald
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- ISBN: 9780520078376
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Hard cover
- Language: English
- Pages: 231
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 231 p.
- This study explores a crucial moment in the history of European selfhood. During the 17th century, French nobles began to understand their lives in terms of personal histories and inner qualities, rather than as the products of tradition and inheritance. This preoccupation with the self accompanied a critical view of society, monarchy and Christian teachings. It also shaped a new understanding of political realities and personal relations. Drawing from a combination of memoirs, literary works and archival sources, Jonathan Dewald offers a new understanding of aristocratic sensibilities. In detailed fashion, he explores the nobles' experience of war, career, money, family, love and friendship. In all of these areas, nobles felt a gap between social expectations and personal needs; in the 17th century this tension became increasingly oppressive. Modern French culture, Dewald argues, emerged from this conflict between tradition and the individual's inner life.
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- Publication dateMarch, 1993
- Pages244
- EditionUnknown
- Original languagesEnglish
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- ISBN: 9780520078376
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Hard cover
- Language: English
- Pages: 231
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 231 p.
- This study explores a crucial moment in the history of European selfhood. During the 17th century, French nobles began to understand their lives in terms of personal histories and inner qualities, rather than as the products of tradition and inheritance. This preoccupation with the self accompanied a critical view of society, monarchy and Christian teachings. It also shaped a new understanding of political realities and personal relations. Drawing from a combination of memoirs, literary works and archival sources, Jonathan Dewald offers a new understanding of aristocratic sensibilities. In detailed fashion, he explores the nobles' experience of war, career, money, family, love and friendship. In all of these areas, nobles felt a gap between social expectations and personal needs; in the 17th century this tension became increasingly oppressive. Modern French culture, Dewald argues, emerged from this conflict between tradition and the individual's inner life.
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