Villages et villageois en Lorraine au 18e siècle
Subtitle: le plat pays thionvillois avant la révolution
By: Jean Kieffer
Publisher: Serpenoise
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Metz
Language: fre
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9782876925403
Subjects: Peasants; History; Rural conditions; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Social life and customs; Rural women
Other titles: Plat pays thionvillois avant la révolution
Description: In this work, Kieffer explores the lives of eighteenth-century peasants in the flat country around Thionville. Village life is explored in terms of its economic, social, and cultural aspects. Demographic analysis reveals that the countryside at that time was highly populated, and economic and social approaches reveal that the peasantry at that time was highly divided and dominated by a powerful feudal system. The traditional values of Catholicism still predominated in the years leading up to the Revolution, and everyday life in these days appears to have been far more difficult for women than for men.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-131).
Table of contents: title: Approche démographique du plat pays thionvillois; title: Le peuplement et son évolution; title: Le mariage; title: La famille conjugale; title: Aspects économiques et sociaux; title: Le mouvement séculaire des prix agricoles; title: Le village dominé; title: Le village divisé; title: Les mentalités villageoises; title: La femme et l'enfant; title: La criminalité; title: La plainte paysanne en 1789.