Dissertation Information for Edna Ruth Yahil NAME: - Edna Ruth Yahil
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2004)
ADVISORS: - Kathryn Norberg
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Teofilo F. Ruiz - Scott L. Waugh - Henry Ansgar Kelly
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Creating justice in late medieval France: The seigneurial court of Saint Germain des Pres
Abstract: This study traces the evolution of law-making, court offices, legal culture, and popular understanding of judicial institutions in and around Paris in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. It focuses on the seigneurial court of the abbey of Saint Germain des Prés, which had judicial and administrative jurisdiction over the Parisian suburb of Saint Germain as well as a constellation of adjacent villages.
The project is based on criminal records as well as civil documents, which are generally ignored in modern historiography. By using such sources, as well as records from courts that were outside of royal control, this study illuminates previously darkened corners of medieval society by revealing the daily conflicts, struggles, and compromises that made up late medieval urban and rural life. By observing their disputes, their transfers of property, their (often troubled) family relations, their guild organization, and their occasional involvement in crime, the lives of fifteenth-century officials, artisans, and unskilled laborers emerge. Contrary to conventional wisdom, non-elites, including those living on the very margins of society, had recourse to courts and used legal procedures to resolve their conflicts. The Saint Germain des Prés records also shed light on the shifting relationship between royal power and local authority and suggest that the king's attempts to interfere in judicial life were not always successful. By examining one ecclesiastical, seigneurial jurisdiction, we can see how legal culture evolved during a crucial era in state making, the long fifteenth century.
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