The King's Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740 - Couverture rigide

Schneider, Zoë A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1580462928 ISBN 13 : 9781580462921

Editeur : University of Rochester Press, 2008

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Hidden deep in the countryside of France lay early modern Europe's largest bureaucracy: twenty- to thirty thousand royal bailiwick and seigneurial courts that served more than eighty-five per cent of the king's subjects. The crown courts and lords' courts were far more than arenas of litigation, in the modern sense. They had become the nexus of local governance by the middle of the seventeenth century, a rich breeding ground for men who controlled the villages, towns, and bailiwicks of France. Yet even as the centralizing state was reaching its zenith under Louis XIV, the king's largest permanent bureaucracy became increasingly alienated and cut adrift from the crown, many decades before the French Revolution.In "The King's Bench", Zoe Schneider vividly brings to life the teeming world of the local courts, with their magistrates and jailers, townspeople and peasants. Together they contested that vital border where the private world of families and property collided with the public commonwealth. Schneider chronicles the transformation of local governance after the mid-seventeenth century, as judges and their courts became the face of public order in the countryside. With this richly detailed local study of Normandy in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries, Zoe Schneider opens a new chapter in the debate over absolutism, sovereignty, and the nature of the state in early modern France.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Zoe A. Schneider has taught at Georgetown University and with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Rochester Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1580462928
• ISBN 13: 9781580462921
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 340