This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its co

This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its co

Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the European Renaissance on.

These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France.

The social, political and cultural factors determining conformity and obedience as well as dissidence and revolt are traced in sixteenth and early seventeenth c