Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300-c.1500 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fletcher, Christopher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This volume, the product of a ten-year international project, brings together specialists in late medieval England and France to explore the multiple mechanisms by which monarchs exercised their power in the final centuries of the Middle Ages. Collaborative chapters, mostly co-written by experts on each kingdom, cover topics ranging from courts, military networks and public finance; office, justice and the men of the church; to political representation, petitioning, cultural conceptions of political society; and the role of those excluded from formal involvement in politics. The result is a richly detailed and innovative comparison of the nature of government and political life, seen from the point of view of how the king ruled his kingdom, but bringing to bear the methods of social, cultural and economic history to understand the underlying armature of royal power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316310236
• Artikelnr.: 43077003

Inhaltsangabe

1. The government of later medieval France and England: a plea for comparative history Jean-Philippe Genet
2. Courts Malcolm Vale
3. Kings, nobles and military networks Steven Gunn and Armand Jamme
4. Offices and officers Christine Carpenter and Olivier Mattéoni
5. Royal public finance (c.1290-1523) David Grummitt and Jean-François Lassalmonie
6. Justice, law and lawyers Michelle Bubenicek and Richard Partington
7. Church and state, clerks and graduates Benjamin Thompson and Jacques Verger
8. Political representation Christopher Fletcher
9. Grace and favour: the petition and its mechanisms Gwilym Dodd and Sophie Petit-Renaud
10. The masses Vincent Challet and Ian Forrest
11. In the mirror of mutual representation: political society as seen by its members Franck Collard and Aude Mairey
12. Conclusion John Watts.