The King's Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740

by Zo? A. Schneider, Zoa Schneider, Zoë A. Schneider

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 crown courts 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580462928
• ISBN13: 9781580462921
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"