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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hayhoe, Jeremy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.
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.