Feudalism, venality, and revolution
Feudalism, venality, and revolution

Author: Stephen Miller

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1526148366

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According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.

Feudal Society in Medieval France
Feudal Society in Medieval France

Author: Theodore Evergates

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2011-06-03

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0812200462

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Theodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a feudal society, uncovering the details of private life and social history that are embedded in the official records.

The Bee and the Eagle
The Bee and the Eagle

Author: Alan Forrest

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-12-18

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0230236731

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This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience.

English and French Towns in Feudal Society
English and French Towns in Feudal Society

Author: Rodney Howard Hilton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-05-04

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780521484565

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This is a comparative study of the role of English and French towns in feudal society in the middle ages. In bringing together much material which dissolves old categories and simplifications in the study of medieval towns, Professor Hilton provides an important new perspective on medieval society and on the nature of feudalism. He argues that medieval towns were not, as is often thought, the harbingers of capitalism, and emphasises the way in which urban social structures fitted into, rather than challenged, feudalism.

Feudal Society
Feudal Society

Author: Marc Bloch

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9780415039161

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Annotation. Feudal Society discusses the economic and social conditions in which feudalism developed providing a deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe.

Enlightened Feudalism
Enlightened Feudalism

Author: Jeremy Hayhoe

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781580462716

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Feudal America
Feudal America

Author: Vladimir Shlapentokh

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0271037814

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"Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher.