The Judicial Background of Parlementary Gallicanism… : DASH Story 2015-03-12
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I am absolutely delighted that Fredric Cheyette's brilliant and path-breaking dissertation on the French church and the Parlement of Paris will now be available freely throughout the world. Fred and I have known each other for many years, since we were both graduate students studying with Charles Taylor at Harvard and doing research in the archives and libraries of France. We have shared discoveries and ideas since the mid 1950s (particularly concerning "feudalism"), have collaborated on a joint research project, and have known and admired a host of fine historians from many parts of the world. We have entered the digital world together, and have profited from (and been frustrated by) much of what it has brought. I have urged Fred for many years to have his thesis scanned and made available to the many people throughout the world who are interested in his research and what he found when he worked in the rich archives of the Parlement of Paris. I am overjoyed that he and Harvard are making the thesis accessible...
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