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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Justine Firnhaber-Baker is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781316635056
ISBN-10: 1316635058
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Firnhaber-Baker, Justine
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2016
Gewicht: 0,346 kg
Artikel-ID: 108348939