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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lipscomb, Suzannah (1978-....)
Titre(s) : The voices of Nîmes [Texte imprimé] : women, sex, and marriage in Reformation Languedoc / Suzannah Lipscomb
Édition : First Edition
Publication : Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-378 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical refererences (pages 339-360) and index
"Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of
history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling and lower levels
of society left no letters or diaries in which they expressed what they felt or thought.
Criminal courts and magistrates kept few records of their testimonies, and no ecclesiastical
court records are known to survive for the French Roman Catholic Church between 1540
and 1667. For the most part, we cannot hear the voices of ordinary French women--
but this study allows us to do so. Based on the evidence of 1,200 cases brought before
the consistories, or moral courts, of the Huguenot church of Languedoc between 1561
and 1615, The Voices of Nîmes allows us to access ordinary women's everyday lives:
their speech, behavior, and attitudes relating to love, faith, and marriage, as well
as friendship and sex. Women appeared frequently before the consistory because one
of the chief functions of moral discipline was the regulation of sexuality, and women
were thought to be primarily responsible for sexual sin. This means that the registers
include over a thousand testimonies by and about women, most of whom left no other
record to posterity"
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Women, sex, and marriage in Reformation Languedoc
Sujet(s) : Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- Nîmes (Gard, France) -- 1500-1800
Rôle selon le sexe -- Nîmes (Gard, France) -- 1500-1800
Tribunaux ecclésiastiques -- Églises protestantes -- Nîmes (Gard, France) -- 1500-1800
Huguenots -- Nîmes (Gard, France) -- 1500-1800
Genre ou forme : Sources
Indice(s) Dewey :
944.803 1 (23e éd.) = Histoire - France - Ancien Languedoc-Roussillon - 1589-1610
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198797661. - ISBN 0198797664 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46603566c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46603566
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Table des matières : Introduction ; Landscape ; The pursuit of morality ; Belief ; Social relations
; Love and marriage ; Sex ; The trials of marriage ; Conclusion.
