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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hayhoe, Jeremy
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.