Bastards
Subtitle: politics, family, and law in early modern France
By: Matthew Gerber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780199755370
Subjects: Illegitimacy; Illegitimate children; Legal status, laws; History
Description: Tracing the historical evolution of legal debates over the rights and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in early modern France, this text offers a political history of the family from the oblique perspective of those who were theoretically excluded from it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : illegitimacy and the political history of the family; title: Bastardy in sixteenth-century French legal doctrine and practice; title: Jurisprudential reform of illegitimacy in seventeenth-century France; title: Royal bastardy & dynastic crisis; title: State expansion, social practice, and the quandaries of legal unification; title: Redefining social interest: the eighteenth-century foundling crisis; title: Illegitimacy and legal change in the French Enlightenment.