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Enlightened Feudalism - Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy (Hardcover, New)
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Enlightened Feudalism - Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
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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. Although the
courts were abolished in 1789, this criticism persisted, with
historians traditionally portraying them as marginal and abusive
relics of a bygone feudal age. In Enlightened Feudalism, Jeremy
Hayhoe demonstrates that these local institutions actually
functioned with a degree of efficiency, professionalism, and
attention to peasant concerns that few historians have appreciated.
Set in Northern Burgundy, this study reveals how provincial
administrative elites quietly encouraged the use of simpler
procedure for minor disputes, thus bringing seigneurial courts
closer to village life. But these reforms paradoxically made the
newly invigorated courts a key instrument of the late
eighteenth-century intensification of the seigneurie. Peasant
ambivalence toward seigneurial courts reflected thisduality, as the
cahiers de doleances both praised the institution for its role in
community affairs, and vigorously criticized it for bolstering the
seigneurial system. By situating the local court within a wide
rangeof 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. Jeremy Hayhoe is Assistant Professor at
the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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