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Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250–1400: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, cartea 95

Autor Justine Firnhaber-Baker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2014
Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called 'private warfare', the French judicial archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the fourteenth century. Royal administrators often intervened in these wars, but not always in order to suppress 'private violence' in favour of 'public justice'. They frequently recognised elites' own power and legitimate prerogatives, and elites were often fully complicit with royal intervention. Much of the engagement between royal officers and local elites came through informal processes of negotiation and settlement, rather than through the imposition of official justice. The expansion of royal authority was due as much to local cooperation as to conflict, a fact that ensured its survival during the fourteenth-century crises. This book thus provides a narrative of the rise of the French state and a fresh perspective on aristocratic violence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107039551
ISBN-10: 110703955X
Pagini: 231
Ilustrații: 4 b/w illus. 1 map
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: history, historians, and Seigneurial War; 1. War and peace in post-Albigensian Languedoc, 1250–70; 2. Philip the Fair's mission from God, 1270–1314; 3. The last Capetians and the Hundred Years War, 1315–50; 4. The changing experience of violence, 1350–64; 5. Violence and the state, 1365–1400; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.

Recenzii

'In this well-written and deeply researched book, Firnhaber-Baker demonstrates not just what royal officials were supposed to do, but what they actually did. … With skill and grit, [she] illuminates how power was exercised and experienced in Languedoc over six generations. Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250–1400 is a major achievement.' Philip Daileader, Speculum
'This book offers a new narrative of the French kings' increasing monopoly over land and power in the Middle Ages, where royal power over Languedoc expanded most often in cooperation, not tension, with local elites.' Susan McDonough, American Historical Review

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Descriere

A reconsideration of aristocratic violence and the rise of the royalist French state from the Albigensian Crusade to Agincourt.