ID - 21689015 TI - Violence and the state in Languedoc, 1250-1400 PY - 2016 SN - 9781316635056 9781107039551 9781139600446 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Violence KW - Social conflict KW - State, The KW - History KW - Languedoc (France) KW - France KW - History, Military. KW - Social conditions. KW - Politics and government. KW - Politics and government KW - Languedoc KW - Aristocratie (Classe sociale) KW - Europe KW - General. KW - History of France KW - anno 500-1499 KW - Elite (Sciences sociales) KW - Conflits sociaux KW - Etat KW - Histoire KW - History, Military KW - Histoire militaire KW - Conditions sociales KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Languedoc [Old French province] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21689015 AB - "Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called private warfare, the French judicial archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the fourteenth century. Royal administrators often intervened in these wars, but not always in order to suppress 'private violence' in favour of 'public justice.' They frequently recognised elites' own power and legitimate prerogatives, and elites were often fully complicit with royal intervention. Much of the engagement between royal officers and local elites came through informal processes of negotiation and settlement, rather than through the imposition of official justice. The expansion of royal authority was due as much to local cooperation as to conflict, a fact that ensured its survival during the fourteenth-century's crises. This book thus provides a new narrative of the rise of the French state and a fresh perspective on aristocratic violence"-- ER -