Enlightened Feudalism

Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy

Szerző: Jeremy Hayhoe

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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Thousands of seigneurial courts covered the French countryside in the early modern era. By the eight...

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Szerző

Jeremy Hayhoe

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2008

oldal

328

EAN

9781580462716

Enbook ID

04822701

Kiadó

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Súly

622

Méretek

163 x 229 x 26

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Thousands of seigneurial courts covered the French countryside in the early modern era. By the eighteenth century these courts were subject to mounting criticism, as Enlightenment concerns about rationality and standardization combined with older absolutist worries that lords' ownership of justice weakened the king's authority. Although the courts were abolished in 1789, this criticism persisted, with historians traditionally portraying them as marginal and abusive relics of a bygone feudal age.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 administrative elites quietly encouraged the use of simpler procedure for minor disputes, thus bringing seigneurial courts closer to village life. But these reforms paradoxically made the newly invigorated courts a key instrument of the late eighteenth-century intensification of the seigneurie.Peasant ambivalence toward seigneurial courts reflected this duality, as the cahiers de doleances both praised the institution for its role in community affairs, and vigorously criticized it for bolstering the seigneurial system. By situating the local court within a wide range of para-judicial institutions and behaviors, Hayhoe presents a new vision of village society, one in which communal bonds were too weak to enforce behavioral norms. Village communities had substantial authority over their own affairs, but required the frequent and active collaboration of the court to enforce the rules that they put into place. Jeremy Hayhoe is assistant professor at the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

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