An engaging account of women's travels in the early modern period. This book showcases three Frenchwomen who ventured far from home at a time when such travelin

A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France.

In this groundbreaking new study, Kate van Orden examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in ear

An examination of France’s Atlantic and Indian Ocean empires through the stories of the little-known people who built it This book is a groundbreaking evaluat

The rise of civilized conduct and behaviour has long been seen as one of the major factors in the transformation from medieval to modern society. Thinkers and h