Description: Enlightened Feudalism : Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-century Northern Burgundy, Hardcover by Hayhoe, Jeremy, ISBN 1580462715, ISBN-13 9781580462716, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 dolances 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 Universit de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Book Title: Enlightened Feudalism : Seigneurial Justice and Village Society i
Number of Pages: 321 Pages
Publication Name: Enlightened Feudalism : Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
Language: English
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Sociology / General, Europe / France, General
Item Weight: 22.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jeremy Hayhoe
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Law, Social Science, History
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
