Bastards Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France |
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Author:
| Gerber, Matthew |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-975537-0 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $145.00 |
Book Description:
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Tracing the historical evolution of legal debates over the rights and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in early modern France, Bastards offers a political history of the family from the oblique perspective of those who were theoretically excluded from it.
Tracing the historical evolution of legal debates over the rights and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in early modern France, Bastards offers a political history of the family from the oblique perspective of those who were theoretically excluded from it.