Description: Further DetailsTitle: Enlightened FeudalismCondition: NewSubtitle: Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern BurgundyISBN-10: 1580462715EAN: 9781580462716ISBN: 9781580462716Publisher: University of Rochester PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/15/2008Description: A reassessment of seigneurial justice that presents a new vision of village society in eighteenth-century France.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 thisduality, as the cahiers de doléances 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 rangeof 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 Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Jeremy HayhoeGenre: HistoryBook Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern EuropeItem Weight: 1gTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Enlightened Feudalism
Title: Enlightened Feudalism
Subtitle: Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Nor
ISBN-10: 1580462715
EAN: 9781580462716
ISBN: 9781580462716
Release Date: 07/15/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 321 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Enlightened Feudalism : Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Sociology / General, Europe / France, General
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.2 Oz
Subject Area: Law, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Jeremy Hayhoe
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe Ser.
Format: Hardcover
