For For students of legal and institutional history wanting a French textbook on the early modern period; not for a reader looking for Ellul's own ideas.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
0 of 5not for the general reader
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A university textbook on early modern institutions. History, not Ellul's own argument.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical5 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The volume of Ellul's Histoire des institutions (Presses universitaires de France) covering the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A university textbook written from his teaching of legal and institutional history at Bordeaux and long kept in print by PUF. It has not been translated into English.
