Enlightened Feudalism : Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hayhoe, Jeremy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Niedergerichtsbarkeit
Manorial courts.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Tribunaux seigneuriaux > France > Bourgogne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Manorial courts > France > Burgundy > History > 18th century.
Burgund > Nord
France > Burgundy.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 doleances
  • Lords, judges, and the self-regulating village.

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