Enlightened Feudalism: Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy

by Jeremy Hayhoe

A reassessment of seigneurial justice that presents a new vision of village society in eighteenth-century France.

Thousands of seigneurial courts covered the French countryside in the early modern era. By the eighteenth century these courts were subject to mounting criticism, as Enlightenment concerns about rationality and standardization combined with older absolutist worries that lords' ownership of justice weakened the king's authority...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580462715
• ISBN13: 9781580462716
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"