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

by Zo? A. Schneider, Zoa Schneider, Zoë A. Schneider

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.

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 crowncourts and lords' courts were far...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580462928
• ISBN13: 9781580462921
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"