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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Suzannah Lipscomb |
ISBN: | 9780198797661 0198797664 |
OCLC Number: | 1041885086 |
Description: | xiv, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Landscape -- The pursuit of morality -- Belief -- Social relations -- Love and marriage -- Sex -- The trials of marriage -- Conclusion. |
Other Titles: | Women, sex, and marriage in Reformation Languedoc |
Responsibility: | Suzannah Lipscomb. |
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...it would be unwise to deny our pleasure, as works about women, families and sexuality are scarce concerning the Protestant Midi on the second half of the 16th century. The book, furthermore, demonstrates the current dynamism of Early Modern gender studies, both in French and British historiography-and we can but rejoice of it. * Review of modern and contemporary history of Nimes & du Gard * [An] elegant and against-the-odds readable journey into women's lives in southern France during a period of social change and religious turmoil. It's a humane and brilliantly told story. * Dan Jones, Waterstones Favourite History Books of the Year 2019 * An exhaustive study ... constitutes a substantive display of scholarly acumen ... The women of Lipscomb's narrative are less devious and more direct about their needs. They have been lucky to find such a gifted chronicler. * Kate Maltby, The Financial Times * This impressive study vividly re-animates the lived realities of ordinary women in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Languedoc...This work is essential reading for specialists and students of gender, consistories, and the Protestant Reformation, while its engaging prose and opening chapters on life in Languedoc and how consistories operated make it accessible to all those interested in early modern France. * Linda Briggs, Queen Mary University of London, French Studies * Lipscomb's painstaking study ... offers new insights into everyday life and popular morality in Reformation France. A finely wrought and colourful mosaic ... the overall result is ... richly satisfying. * Professor Alexandra Walsham, Literary Review * [R]eaders of The Voices of Nimes will come away with a vivid sense of women's daily life in a sixteenth-century French town and will learn much from the book. * Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg Univeristy, H-France Review * This impressive study vividly re-animates the lived realities of ordinary women in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Languedoc essential reading for specialists and students of gender, consistories, and the Protestant Reformation, while its engaging prose and opening chapters on life in Languedoc and how consistories operated make it accessible to all those interested in early modern France * Linda Briggs, French Studies * The Voices of Nimes is a work of meticulous archival research that not only presents [...] past conversations but breathes them into vivid life. It takes a proficient, passionate and witty storyteller like Lipscomb to detail these stories in a way that transports and moves the reader. * Dr Joanne Paul, History Today * This is a splendid read. The author has not overplayed her stories. She has not needed to. This is scholarly writing at its readable best. * Dr. G. R. Evans, Church Times * This is a beautiful book, grippingly written, and destined to be a classic of social history * Professor Sir Simon Schama * Fascinating book... exceptional fresh insights into gender relations, social life, and religious belief among first generations of protestants in the French Midi * Robin Briggs, All Souls College, Oxford * Essential reading for all those interested in the hidden stories of the Reformation and hearing the everyday voices so often left out of history books * Kate Mosse, Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth and The Burning Chambers * Read more...


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