he seems nonetheless to have been a man of sober judgement, one who approved of good order in society and of integrity in individuals. In early seventeenth-century France the connection between law and historiography was well established. As a lawyer writing history in the 1620s, Rozée was continuing a tradition that had become particularly apparent at least seventy years earlier. Lawyers accounted for about eighty per cent of the French (male) writers whose books made a significant contribution to the culture of their age and whose first books were published between 1540 and 1584. Along with clerics they were also amongst the most avid readers. The men responsible for the transformation of historiography after the 1550s had generally supplemented their initial studies in ancient languages and texts with higher studies in law. The contribution of lawyers was decisive attention from drum and trumpet ‘in shifting history to institutional, social and Lawyers brought political history to the cultural studies.’ fore. Unlike earlier military histories written by the nobility and ecclesiastical histories written by the clergy, political history offered an la mesure où la integrated account, ‘dans vie politique coiffe toutes sortes dont chacune que partie The d’activités n’est d’un tout.’ provides a political history in so far as Rozée concentrated on struggles for power Histoire and authority: Royalists are pitted against the (at national, provincial and municipal Ligue levels), the against Barnabé Brisson and then against Mayenne, Claude de Sainctes Seize – against royalist parlements, gallicans against ultramontanists, preacher against preacher... Lawyers were trained to be critical. They sifted evidence and reached verdicts. Three notable theoreticians of historiography Loys Le Roy, Jean Bodin and La Popelinière all – – studied law in . The men writing new histories of the distant past Estienne Pasquier, –
he seems nonetheless to have been a man of sober judgement, one who approved of good order in society and of integrity in individuals. In early seventeenth-century France the connection between law and historiography was well established. As a lawyer writing history in the 1620s, Rozée was continuing a tradition that had become particularly apparent at least seventy years earlier. Lawyers accounted for about eighty per cent of the French (male) writers whose books made a significant contribution to the culture of their age and whose first books were published between 1540 and 1584. Along with clerics they were also amongst the most avid readers. The men responsible for the transformation of historiography after the 1550s had generally supplemented their initial studies in ancient languages and texts with higher studies in law. The contribution of lawyers was decisive ‘in shifting attention from drum and trumpet history to institutional, social and cultural studies.’ Lawyers brought political history to the fore. Unlike earlier military histories written by the nobility and ecclesiastical histories written by the clergy, political history offered an integrated account, ‘dans la mesure où la vie politique coiffe toutes sortes d’activités dont chacune n’est que partie d’un tout.’ The Histoire provides a political history in so far as Rozée concentrated on struggles for power and authority: Royalists are pitted against the Ligue (at national, provincial and municipal levels), the Seize against Barnabé Brisson – and then against Mayenne, Claude de Sainctes against royalist parlements, gallicans against ultramontanists, preacher against preacher... Lawyers were trained to be critical. They sifted evidence and reached verdicts. Three notable theoreticians of historiography – Loys Le Roy, Jean Bodin and La Popelinière – all studied law in . The men writing new histories of the distant past – Estienne Pasquier,