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- Title
Seigneurial War and Royal Power in Later Medieval Southern France*.
- Authors
Firnhaber-Baker, Justine
- Abstract
The article discusses small-scale seigneurial or private wars ("guerre privée") carried out among local lords in Southern France in the 13th and 14th centuries, and the efforts of the kings of France to suppress them and consolidate royal power. Late medieval seigneurial wars in Languedoc and the Auvergne are discussed, as are royal efforts to ban them through the issuing of "ordonnances" or decrees. These tensions between royal and seigneurial power are discussed in the context of historiographical debates about the transition from feudalism to royal absolutism and the evolving political concept of sovereignty.
- Subjects
LANGUEDOC (France); AUVERGNE (France); FRANCE; MEDIEVAL French history; MEDIEVAL military art &; science; CENTRAL-local government relations; FRENCH monarchy; FEUDALISM; POLITICS &; war
- Publication
Past & Present, 2010, Vol 208, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0031-2746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pastj/gtq008