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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2008.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.