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Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe rethinks the rise of modern European states as a process of decentralization. The idea that states made lordships obsolete is challenged by showing how the distribution of authority among local lords reinforced the development of new political systems.
List of contents
- List of Figures and Maps
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe
- 1: John Watts: Lordship and the State: Alloy or Emulsion?
- Part I Case Studies of Lordship in France and the Low Countries
- 2: Erika Graham-Goering: Integrative Approaches to (Co-)Lordship in Late Medieval Languedoc
- 3: Ysaline Bourgine de Meder: Rehabilitating Norman Lordship: The Fief of Hauberk and its Judicial Rights in the 15th and 16th Centuries
- 4: Georg Jostkleigrewe: (De)Centralizing Governance in Late Medieval France: Actors and Mechanisms
- 5: Frederik Buylaert: Seigneurial Lordship and the State in the County of Flanders (c. 1350-1550)
- 6: Wim Blockmans: Pursuit of Nobility and the Priorities of Political Representatives in Early 15th-Century Flanders
- 7: Rombert Stapel and Arie van Steensel: Lordship in Medieval Holland and Zeeland
- 8: Janna Everaert and Sieben Feys: Urban Political Elites and Seigneurial Lordship: Antwerp and its Hinterland (c. 1400-1550)
- 9: Mario Damen and Jim van der Meulen: The Seigneurial Landscapes of Riverine Brabant and Guelders (15th-16th Centuries)
- Conclusions to Part I: Lordship, Commonwealth, Variegated Polities, and the State
- Part II European Historiographies of Lordship
- 10: Chris Given-Wilson: Lordship and State Formation in Late Medieval England
- 11: Alice Taylor: Lordship and State Formation in Scotland, 1300-1500
- 12: Hillay Zmora: Lordship and State Formation in the Holy Roman Empire, 1300-1550
- 13: Francesco Bozzi: A Land of Lords: Lordship and State Formation in the Italian Peninsula
- 14: José Antonio Jara Fuente: Jurisdiction: The Crooked Leg of Lordship? State Formation in Castile in the 15th Century
- 15: Hans Jacob Orning: Lordship and State in Scandinavia, c. 1300-1500
- Conclusions to Part II: State and Lordship: Concluding Remarks
- Index
About the author
Erika Graham-Goering is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo.
Jim van der Meulen is a social historian at Ghent University with a broad specialisation in the Low Countries between 1300 and 1700, combining expertise in political, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental history.
Frederik Buylaert, Professor of History at Ghent University, is a social historian of the Low Countries with a side interest in comparative history and the history of historiography.
Summary
Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe rethinks the rise of modern European states as a process of decentralization. The idea that states made lordships obsolete is challenged by showing how the distribution of authority among local lords reinforced the development of new political systems.
