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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Evergates, Theodore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1993.
Colección:Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.