Table of Contents

Part 1 Culture and ideology: Neostoicism and absolutism in late Elizabethan England, Lisa Ferraro Parmelee; notions of social and religious pollution in Nicolas Remy's "Demonalatry", Richard M. Golden; strengthening the noble male body - Guillaume du Choul on ancient bathing and physical exercise, Orest Ranum. Part 2 Politics and the law: Louis XII's Gallican crisis of 1510-1513; a day in the life of the Third Estate - Blois, 26 December 1576, Greengrass, Mark; meddling chaperons - the involvement of the Parlement of Paris in the Estates General of 1593, Adrianna E. Bakos; the monarchic state of early modern France - martial regime government and male right, Sarah Hanley; men of law and the French Revolution, Donald Kelley. Part 3 Historiography and political theory: Jacques Almain on "Dominium" - a neglected text, J.H. Burns; revising the revisionists - Louis-Pierre Anquetil and the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre; Locke on the dissolution of society, Julian H.Franklin.