Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400

A reconsideration of aristocratic violence and the rise of the royalist French state from the Albigensian Crusade to Agincourt.

List of contents

Introduction: history, historians, and Seigneurial War; 1. War and peace in post-Albigensian Languedoc, 1250-70; 2. Philip the Fair's mission from God, 1270-1314; 3. The last Capetians and the Hundred Years War, 1315-50; 4. The changing experience of violence, 1350-64; 5. Violence and the state, 1365-1400; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.

About the author

Justine Firnhaber-Baker is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews.

Summary

This book provides a narrative of the rise of the French state, showing that the crown's centralising judicial administration co-existed with large-scale aristocratic violence. Royal power grew as much through efforts to negotiate and settle these conflicts as it did through efforts to suppress them.

Product details

• Authors: Justine Firnhaber-Baker, Justine (University of St Andrews Firnhaber-Baker, Firnhaber-Baker Justine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2017
• EAN: 9781316635056
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63505-6
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Violence and abuse in society, Medieval warfare (predating gunpowder warfare)