Rulership in France, 15th–17th Centuries

Ralph E. Giesey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780860789208
• eBook ISBN: 9781040244821
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The common theme of these essays is the emergence of the modern state in late medieval and renaissance France. They examine, on the one hand, how the image of the king was enhanced in a variety of royal ceremonials as well as in the political writings of Jean Bodin and Cardin le Bret. The limits of the sovereign's authority, on the other hand, were forcefully enunciated in the works of François Hotman and Théodore de Bèze. The stability of the monarchy was maintained by the noblesse de robe, a new form of hereditary nobility that virtually owned the high judicial and administrative offices they held. The last two articles are devoted, first to the author's view of the concept of the French king's "two bodies" and second to the life of his mentor, Ernst H. Kantorowicz, who wrote the seminal work, The King's Two Bodies.

Table of contents

• Cover
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• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• I The French Estates and the Corpus Mysticum Regni Album Helen Maud Cam. Études présentées à la Commission Internationale pour l'Histoire des Assemblées d'Êtats, 23, pp. 155-171. Paris: Louvain, 1960
• II When and Why Hotman Wrote the Francogallia Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 29, pp. 581-611. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1967
• III The Monarchomach Triumvirs: Hotman, Beza and Mornay Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 32, pp. 41-56. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 1970
• IV "Quod Omnes Tangit" - A Post Scriptum Studia Gratiana 15, pp. 321-332. Rome, 1972
• V Medieval Jurisprudence in Bodin's Concept of Sovereignty Jean Bodin: Verhandlungen der internationalen Bodin Tagung in München, ed. Horst Denzer, pp. 167-186. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1973
• VI The Presidents of Parlement at the Royal Funeral Sixteenth Century Journal 7, pp. 25-34. Montana: Truman State University, 1976
• VII Rules of Inheritance and Strategies of Mobility in Prerevolutionary France The American Historical Review 82, pp. 271-289. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1977
• VIII State-Building in Early Modern France: The Role of Royal Officialdom Journal of Modern History 55, pp. 191-207. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
• IX Models of Rulership in French Royal Ceremonial Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual and Politics Since the Middle Ages, ed. Sean Wilentz, pp. 41-64. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985
• X From Monarchomachs to Dynastic Officialdom State and Society in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Proceedings of the First Conference of Polish and American Historians, 1974, ed. Jaroslaw Pelenski, pp. 185-200. Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 1985
• XI Cardin Le Bret and Lese Majesty (in collaboration with Lanny Haldy and James Millhorn) Law and History Review 4, pp. 23-54. Illinois: The University of Illinois Press, 1986
• XII The King Imagined The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, Vol. 1: The Political Culture of the Old Régime, ed. Keith M. Baker, pp. 41-59. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987
• XIII Inaugural Aspects of French Royal Ceremonials Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual, ed. János M. Bak, pp. 35-45. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990
• XIV Royal Ceremonial and the Advent of Absolutism A Memória da Nação, ed. Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto, pp. 169-186. Lisbon: Livraria Sá da Costa Editora, 1991
• XV Noël de Fribois et la Loi Salique (co-authored with Kathleen Daly) Bibliothèque de I'École des Chartes 151, pp. 5-36. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1993
• XVI The Two Bodies of the French King Ernst Kantotricz: Erträge der Doppeltagung Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt (Frankfurter Historische Abhandlungen Band 39), ed. Robert L. Benson and Johannes Fried, pp. 224-239. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997
• XVII Ernst H. Kantorowicz: Scholarly Triumphs and Academic Travails in Weimar Germany and the United States
• Leo Baeck Institute Year Book XXX, pp. 191-202. London, 1985
• Index