Feudal society in medieval France : documents from the County of Champagne /
Theodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a feudal society, uncovering the details of private life and social history that are embedded in the o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1993.
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Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Governance of a Feudal State
- Feudal Policies
- Permission to Clairvaux to acquire fiefs, ca. 1145
- The count acquires a castle and grants fiefs for castle-guard, 1200
- The assignment of a new fief, 1201
- Liege homage is imposed on a younger brother in 1201
- Authorization to build a castle, 1206
- An exemption to the castle policy, 1223
- An allodial castle is feudalized, 1221
- Confiscation of an unauthorized alienation, 1234
- The repurchase of a fief, 1244
- The great feudal inquest, 1249-1250
- Unauthorized alienations to the church, 1250-1252
- Restrictions on Templar acquisitions, 1191, 1255
- Authorization to acquire feudal property, 1260
- Royal taxation of alienated fiefs, 1291
- Count Thibaut V taxes his feudal tenants, 1257
- Rural and Urban Policies
- Count Henry franchises a new village, 1175
- A joint sponsorship (pariage) of a new community, 1223
- The communal franchises of 1230-1232
- A tax on the Jews, 1222
- The Fairs of Champagne
- Regulations of the Fairs of May, 1164
- The official weigh station, 1174
- Cloth merchants must pay the sales tax, 1175
- Clothmakers at Provins must be residents, ca. 1223
- The merchants of Piacenza are banned from the fairs, 1243
- Family Affairs
- Marriage and Divorce
- An unconsummated marriage is undone, 1153
- A prenuptial agreement, 1205
- A baronial dowry, 1223
- A contract of marriage between knightly families, 1231
- Count Thibaut IV's marriage contract, 1233
- A projected divorce settlement, 1224.