Order and disorder under the Ancien Régime /
Merrick, Jeffrey.
Order and disorder under the Ancien Régime / by Jeffrey Merrick. - Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. - 1 online resource (xii, 392 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CONCLUSION; GLOSSARY; INDEX
This collection of revised and previously unpublished articles explores aspects of the history of monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in early modern, especially eighteenth-century France. The durable but flexible traditions of the Ancien Régime not only sanctified but also limited the prerogatives of sovereigns over subjects and husbands/fathers/masters over wives, children, and servants. Private and public weakness and excess in those who ruled the kingdom and the household undermined their masculinity and legitimacy. Merrick analyzes expositions of and contestations about the origins, extent, and use and abuse of gendered royal and domestic authority in a wide variety of sources, including descriptions of beehives, pamphlets published during the Fronde, statues of Louis XV, police reports about disturbed subjects, parlementary remonstrances, Jansenist polemics, essays submitted to the Academy of Berlin, the memoirs of the marquis de Bombelles, and complaints of wives against husbands and marital separation cases in Paris. In principle, kings and husbands/fathers/masters preserved order in the kingdom and the household by controlling themselves as well as their subordinates. In practice, they sometimes provoked disorder and failed in many ways to prevent and punish disorder. Merrick's articles on suicide and sodomy not only revisit some celebrated incidents (the deaths of the dragoons Bourdeaux and Humain, who shot themselves on 25 December 1773) and notorious characters (the pederast marquis de Villette and tribade mademoiselle de Raucourt) but also document patterns in the lives and deaths of ordinary men and women. Based, like the articles on marital disputes, on extensive archival research, they investigate changes in jurisprudence and mentalities during the eighteenth century. As a whole, this volume challenges simplistic assumptions about absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution.
9781443807548 (electronic bk.) 1443807540 (electronic bk.) 1282191276 9781282191273
1589-1799
Monarchy--History--France--18th century.
Male domination (Social structure)--History--France--18th century.
Sex role--History--France--18th century.
Monarchie--Histoire--France--18e siècle.
Domination masculine (Structure sociale)--Histoire--18e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe--Histoire--France--18e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY--Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP--Sexual Instruction.
Male domination (Social structure)
Monarchy.
Moral conditions.
Sex role.
Sexualverhalten
Sozialordnung
Familie--Frankreich--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Gesellschaft--Frankreich--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Homosexualität--Frankreich--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Selbstmord--Frankreich--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Sexualität.
Sozialordnung.
France--Moral conditions--18th century.
France--History--Bourbons, 1589-1789.
France.
Frankreich
Frankreich.
Electronic books.
History.
DC133.3 / .M63 2007eb
306.7086/21094409033
Order and disorder under the Ancien Régime / by Jeffrey Merrick. - Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. - 1 online resource (xii, 392 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CONCLUSION; GLOSSARY; INDEX
This collection of revised and previously unpublished articles explores aspects of the history of monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in early modern, especially eighteenth-century France. The durable but flexible traditions of the Ancien Régime not only sanctified but also limited the prerogatives of sovereigns over subjects and husbands/fathers/masters over wives, children, and servants. Private and public weakness and excess in those who ruled the kingdom and the household undermined their masculinity and legitimacy. Merrick analyzes expositions of and contestations about the origins, extent, and use and abuse of gendered royal and domestic authority in a wide variety of sources, including descriptions of beehives, pamphlets published during the Fronde, statues of Louis XV, police reports about disturbed subjects, parlementary remonstrances, Jansenist polemics, essays submitted to the Academy of Berlin, the memoirs of the marquis de Bombelles, and complaints of wives against husbands and marital separation cases in Paris. In principle, kings and husbands/fathers/masters preserved order in the kingdom and the household by controlling themselves as well as their subordinates. In practice, they sometimes provoked disorder and failed in many ways to prevent and punish disorder. Merrick's articles on suicide and sodomy not only revisit some celebrated incidents (the deaths of the dragoons Bourdeaux and Humain, who shot themselves on 25 December 1773) and notorious characters (the pederast marquis de Villette and tribade mademoiselle de Raucourt) but also document patterns in the lives and deaths of ordinary men and women. Based, like the articles on marital disputes, on extensive archival research, they investigate changes in jurisprudence and mentalities during the eighteenth century. As a whole, this volume challenges simplistic assumptions about absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution.
9781443807548 (electronic bk.) 1443807540 (electronic bk.) 1282191276 9781282191273
1589-1799
Monarchy--History--France--18th century.
Male domination (Social structure)--History--France--18th century.
Sex role--History--France--18th century.
Monarchie--Histoire--France--18e siècle.
Domination masculine (Structure sociale)--Histoire--18e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe--Histoire--France--18e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY--Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP--Sexual Instruction.
Male domination (Social structure)
Monarchy.
Moral conditions.
Sex role.
Sexualverhalten
Sozialordnung
Familie--Frankreich--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Gesellschaft--Frankreich--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Homosexualität--Frankreich--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Selbstmord--Frankreich--Geschichte 18. Jh.
Sexualität.
Sozialordnung.
France--Moral conditions--18th century.
France--History--Bourbons, 1589-1789.
France.
Frankreich
Frankreich.
Electronic books.
History.
DC133.3 / .M63 2007eb
306.7086/21094409033