books.google.co.uk - Appropriately centred on France, the essays in this volume make a significant contribution to the study of political life and thought during the ancien régime. Scholars in the field of early modern Europe consider various ways in which contemporaries in different walks of life expressed their understanding...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Politics_Ideology_and_the_Law_in_Early_M.html?id=0LUassLJ7-cC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePolitics, Ideology, and the Law in Early Modern Europe