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portada The King's Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740: 11 (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2008
Language
English
Pages
340
Format
Hardcover
Weight
1
ISBN
1580462928
ISBN13
9781580462921
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The King's Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740: 11 (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe)

ZoË A. Schneider (Author) · University Of Rochester Press · Hardcover

The King's Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740: 11 (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe) - ZoË A. Schneider

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Synopsis "The King's Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740: 11 (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe) "

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 percent 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, Zoë 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, Zoë Schneider opens a new chapter in the debate over absolutism, sovereignty, and the nature of the state in early modern France. Zoë A. Schneider has taught at Georgetown University and with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

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