Under the arches of the Palace of Justice. Seven legal conflicts in France of the 16th century

French lawyers, judges and university masters turned out to be participants in the seven conflicts considered in the book. In addition to the restoration of their historical and biographical circumstances on the basis of archival sources, these conflicts are considered as legal conflicts, that is, as the contradictions between the competencies of various authorities or between different legal acts governing related relations, and as incidents - confusing cases requiring the application of microistoric methods research. The chosen angle allows you to look from the inside at important historical processes: the formation of absolutist ideology, the desire to unify French law, the functioning of royal justice and the conduct of judicial administrative reforms, the spread of reformation ideas and the religious wars caused by these, the strengthening of the institution of sales of royal posts. Much attention is paid to the problems of the history of everyday life and the history of the family. But the basic issues of updated social history remain the main ones: social hierarchies and social mobility, the degree of freedom of the individual and the group in determining his fate, the idea of ​​how the French society of the 16th century was arranged