Walled towns and the shaping of France [electronic resource] : from the medieval to the early modern era / Michael Wolfe.
Wolfe, Michael.
2009
DC33.2 .W65 2009eb
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Title Walled towns and the shaping of France [electronic resource] : from the medieval to the early modern era / Michael Wolfe.
Author Wolfe, Michael.
ISBN 9780230101128 (electronic book.)
0230608124
Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vi, 266 p.) : ill., maps
Call Number DC33.2 .W65 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 944/.02
Summary This book focuses on the ways in which military technology, political and social trends, and shifting frontiers shaped the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life as embodied in the "wall," an image at once intensely physical and deeply symbolic. It traces the evolution of towns across much of what is today France from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century when the walls began to come down, opening up new, ultimately revolutionary possibilities for urban life. This long-term perspective on town fortifications - how they were built, the contests to control them, and how they shaped the lives of people both inside and outside them - in the end tell us much about the making of France.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-250) and index.
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The walls go up (900-1325)
The walls move outward (1325-1600)
The walls come down (1600-1750).

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