Zoë A Schneider

The King's Bench

Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a detailed local study of Normandy in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. This title brings the teeming world of the local courts, with their magistrates and jailers, townspeople and peasants. It chronicles the transformation of local governance after the mid-seventeenth century.

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An examination of kings' courts and lords' courts in Normandy that opens a new chapter in the debate over absolutism, sovereignty, and the nature of the state in early modern France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781580462921
• ISBN-10: 1580462928
• Artikelnr.: 24782614

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Rex and Lex: The Problem of
Legislative Sovereignty 2. Howling with the Wolves: The Normans and Their
Courts 3. Officers and Gentlemen: The Local Judiciary 4. Law and Lawyers in
the "Empire of Custom" 5. The Red Robe and the Black: Common Courts and the
State 6. Villagers and Townspeople: Civil Litigants 7. Uncivil Acts: Crime
and Punishment 8. Unruly Governors: Functions and Dysfunctions of the
Common Courts Appendix A: Courts of the Généralité of Rouen Appendix B:
Jurisdictions of the Ordinary Courts Appendix C: Criminal Trial Procedure
Notes Glossary of Legal Terms Bibliography Index