From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris chapter-book It presents language in progression

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From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris chapter-book It presents language in progressionLooking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day to day experiences. Janine Lanza examines widows in early modern Paris at every social and economic level, beginning with the late sixteenth century when changes in royal law curtailed the movement of property within families up to the time of the French Revolution.