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The King's Bench : Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740 /
In this richly detailed study of Normandy in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries, Zoë Schneider vividly brings to life the teeming world of the local courts, with their magistrates and jailers, townspeople and peasants. Together they contested.
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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: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Rex and Lex: The Problem of Legislative Sovereignty; 2 Howling with the Wolves: The Normans and Their Courts; 3 Officers and Gentlemen: The Local Judiciary; 4 Law and Lawyers in the "Empire of Custom"; 5 The Red Robe and the Black: Common Courts and the State; 6 Villagers and Townspeople: Civil Litigants; 7 Uncivil Acts: Crime and Punishment; 8 Unruly Governors: Functions and Dysfunctions of the Common Courts; APPENDIX A: Courts of the Generalite of Rouen; APPENDIX B: Jurisdictions of the Ordinary Courts.