James B. Collins

Empire of Fear

From Monarchical Commonwealth to French Royal State, 1561-1651. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 362 Seiten

ISBN 1107030099

EAN 9781107030091

Veröffentlicht 31. Dezember 2025

Verlag/Hersteller Cambridge University Press

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Beschreibung

While French political discourse in the late Middle Ages had been based on ancient Roman ideas that government existed for the common good (le bien public, or la chose publique, a French translation of the Latin res publica), these ideas began to evolve in the 1570s. Although references to the common good continued to be used right up to the French Revolution, they were gradually overtaken by a focus on the good of the State (le bien de l'État). James B. Collins demonstrates how this evolution in language existed at every social level from the peasant village up to the royal court. By analysing the language used in scores of local, regional and national lists of grievances presented to provincial estates and the Estates-General, Collins demonstrates how the growth was as much a bottom-up process as a top-down enforcement of royal power.

Portrait

James B. Collins is Professor Emeritus of History at Georgetown University. Collins is the author of nine books and dozens of articles, including The State in Early Modern France (Cambridge, 1995; 2nd ed. 2008) and The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356-1560 (Cambridge, 2022).