Tale of Two Murders Passion And Power In Seventeenth-Century France

"Dazzling beauty, spousal abuse, passionate love, wanton covetousness, lust, conspiracy, poison, murder, vengeance: what an engaging surprise to discover that one of America's foremost scholars of early modern European society, James R. Farr, is also a beguiling storyteller. A riveting drama, his book is at the same time a masterful analysis of emotion and affect, rites and rituals, elite formation and reproduction, family and lineage strategies, gender construction, the discourse and practice of the law, political culture, relations of domination and subordination, the tensions between center and periphery, and the myriad ways in which power worked in seventeenth-century France."-Steven Laurence Kaplan, author ofThe Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 17001775Farr, James Richard is the author of 'Tale of Two Murders Passion And Power In Seventeenth-Century France', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822334712 and ISBN 0822334712.