Enlightened feudalism : seigneurial justice and village society in eighteenth-century northern Burgundy /
In 'Enlightened Feudalism', Jeremy Hayhoe demonstrates that these local institutions actually functioned with a degree of efficiency, professionalism, and attention to peasant concerns that few historians have appreciated. Set in Northern Burgundy, this study reveals how provincial adminis...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Changing perspectives on early modern Europe.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tiny courts, incompetent judges?
- Justice in the interests of lords
- Justice in the interests of the community
- Conflict and consensus in and out of court
- Local knowledge and legal reform : the transformation of justice
- Tocqueville in the village : seigneurial reaction and the central state
- A popular institution? : seigneurial justice in the cahiers de doléances
- Lords, judges, and the self-regulating village.