Human remains have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, investigated, harvested for ...

These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a ...

A fascinating, wide-ranging survey of the history of demon possession and exorcism through the ages. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation ...

Contrary to their traditional image as a caste of intransigent reactionaries and parasites, this analysis maintains that pre-revolutionary nobility actually were in the ...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-century France ...

Grade level: 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.