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The King's Bench - Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740 (Hardcover)
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The King's Bench - Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740 (Hardcover)
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
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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 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, Zoe 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, Zoe Schneider opens a new chapter in
the debate over absolutism, sovereignty, and the nature of the
state in early modern France. Zoe A. Schneider has taught at
Georgetown University and with the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C.
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