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Author Lipscomb, Suzannah, author.

Title The voices of Nîmes : women, sex, and marriage in Reformation Languedoc / Suzannah Lipscomb
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction -- Landscape -- The pursuit of morality -- Belief -- Social relations -- Love and marriage -- Sex -- The trials of marriage -- Conclusion
Summary Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this work, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and aspirations of ordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French women, using rich source material to show what they thought about their lives, menfolk, friendships, faith, and sex
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2019)
Subject Women -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
Women -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- Modern period, 1600-
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Women -- Modern period.
Women -- Renaissance.
SUBJECT Languedoc (France) -- History -- 16th century
Languedoc (France) -- History -- 17th century
Subject France -- Languedoc.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191839030
0191839035
9780192518323
0192518321