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- Title
Sociale hiërarchisering en informatiebeheer tussen vorst en kasselrij.
- Authors
Buylaert, Frederik
- Abstract
This publication provides a critical edition of the lists of nobles and dignitaries that are preserved for different moments in the fifteenth and sixteenth century for the rural districts of Courtrai, Waas, Furnes and the Liberty of Bruges, as well as of a document that lists the nobility of the entire county in 1540-1543. Those documents are first and foremost important for future research into local elites, but they also help to contextualize a series of preserved surveys that cover the entire Flemish nobility and which were used by the central institutions of the Burgundian and Habsburg state to convoke the nobility for military duties. Those general surveys of the nobility were not the result of active prospecting by state officials, but must be understood as a compilation of more local lists of nobles and dignitaries that were provided by the administration of the rural districts of the county. In doing so, the central administration of the prince essentially relied on the judgment of the elites that dominated those local administrations to assess who was supposed to fulfill noble duties. As such, the documents edited in this contribution provide precious insight into processes of social hiérarchisation in the upper layers of premodern Flemish society.
- Subjects
KORTRIJK (Belgium); WAASLAND (Belgium &; Netherlands); FLANDERS; NOBILITY (Social class); SOCIAL hierarchies; FLEMISH history; BURGUNDY dynasty, Netherlands, 1384-1477; HOUSE of Habsburg, Netherlands, 1477-1556; HISTORY; BELGIAN politics &; government
- Publication
Bulletin de la Commission Royale d'Histoire, 2012, Issue 178, p65
- ISSN
0001-415X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3406/bcrh.2012.4093