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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Orest A Ranum |
| ISBN: | 0271022213 9780271022215 |
| OCLC Number: | 50080002 |
| Description: | 403 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | PART I. THE MEDIEVAL BURDEN -- A traveler's view in 1600 -- An explosive political climate -- The necessity of a capital -- PART II. FOUNDATIONS OF MODERNITY -- Early Bourbon absolutism -- The birth of modern Paris -- The neighborhood builders -- The first women writers -- PART III. MEDIEVAL REVIVAL -- A generation of saints -- The last heroes -- The corporate Parisians -- PART IV. URBAN ABSOLUTISM: THE FLIGHT FROM MODERNITY -- The Frondeurs -- A generation of Tartuffes -- The new Rome. |
| Responsibility: | Orest Ranum. |
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