Powerbrokers in the Late Middle Ages
The Burgundian Low countries in a European Context: Les courtiers du pouvoir au bas Moyen-Age. Les Pays-Bas bourguignons dans un contexte europeen
Edited by R Stein
The fifteenth century was of crucial importance for the Low Countries. After centuries of gradual political disintegration, a rapid unification took place during the reign of the Burgundian dukes, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold. How did this new ‘state’ work? To most people the political high-points are well known; but the slow process of integration that had by then started remains, by contrast, largely unknown. In this process, the regional institutions, which were thoroughly modernised by the Burgundian dukes, seem to have played a key role. The first part of this volume discusses the role of these regional institutions. In particular it studies the role in the principalities of Brabant, Holland and Flanders of civil servants as formal and informal ‘powerbrokers’ between central government and subjects in the Low Countries during the Burgundian period. The Low Countries, however, cannot be treated in isolation from its neighbours: they were situated literally on the frontier of the Holy Roman Empire and France and there were intensive commercial and political contacts with England. Therefore, by way of comparison, the second part of this volume contrasts developments in other European countries, in particular, France, the Empire and England. The articles in this volume are written by a group of distinguished specialists in the field of administrative history, working at universities in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
- Edited by R Stein
Other Titles in this Series
Luxury Bound
Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550)
Volume 16
Women at the Burgundian Court / Femmes a la Cour de Bourgogne
Presence and Influence / Presence et Influence
Volume 17
Marie de Bourgogne/Mary of Burgundy
Reign, 'Persona', and Legacy of a Late Medieval Duchess / Figure, Principat et Posterite d'une Duchesse Tardo-Medievale
Volume 31
La Chambre des comptes de Lille de 1386 a 1419
Essor, organisation et fonctionnement d'une institution princiere
Volume 20
Noblesses transregionales
Les Croy et les frontieres pendant les guerres de religion (France, Lorraine et Pays-Bas, XVIe et XVIIe siecle)
Volume 30
Ecrire le voyage au temps des ducs de Bourgogne
Actes du colloque international organise les 19 et 20 octobre 2017 a l'Universite du Littoral - Cote d'Opale (Dunkerque)
Volume 33
Entre la ville, la noblesse et l’Etat
Philippe de Cleves (1456-1528), homme politique et bibliophile
Volume 13
La guerre, le prince et ses sujets
Les finances des Pays-Bas bourguignons sous Marie de Bourgogne et Maximilien d'Autriche (1477-1493)
Volume 28
Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair
Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries
Volume 15
Visualizing Justice in Burgundian Prose Romance
Text and Image in Manuscripts of the Wavrin Master (1450s-1460s)
Volume 29
Gestion et administration d’une principaute a la fin du Moyen Age
Le comte de Bourgogne sous Jean sans Peur (1404-1419)
Volume 23
Pour la singuliere affection qu’avons a luy. Etudes bourguignonnes offertes a Jean-Marie Cauchies
Volume 24
Ambassades et ambassadeurs de Philippe le Bon, troisieme duc Valois de Bourgogne (1419-1467)
Volume 21
A spectacle for a Spanish Princess
The Festive Entry of Joanna of Castile into Brussels (1496)
Volume 35
La noblesse au service du prince
Les Saveuse: un hostel noble de Picardie au temps de l'Etat bourguignon (v. 1380-v. 1490)
Volume 27
Jean Molinet et son temps
Actes des rencontres internationales de Dunkerque, Lille et Gand (8-10 novembre 2007)
Volume 22
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