The Lit de Justice of the Kings of France : : Constitutional Ideology in Legend, Ritual, and Discourse /

The Lit de Justice of the Kings of France : : Constitutional Ideology in Legend, Ritual, and Discourse / / Sarah Hanley.

In this study of the Lit de Justice assembly, Sarah Hanley draws on history, legend, ritual, and discourse to show how constitutional ideologies were propagated in the Grand-chambre of the Parlement of Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Le...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Hanley, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1983
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 680
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Physical Description:1 online resource (404 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Whither the Ancient French Constitution?
  • I. The Judicial Monarchy in French Constitutional Ideology: The Royal Seance and the "lit de justice" in the Later Middle Ages
  • II. The Juristic Monarchy in French Constitutional Ideology: The Ceremonial Lit de Justice Assemblies of 1527
  • III. Confirmation of French Hegemony in a Constitutional Forum: The Lit de Justice Assembly of 1537
  • IV. Fact and Fiction in Historical Research: Jean du Tillet's Reconstruction of the French Constitution
  • V. A Polarized View of the French Constitution: History Debated and Ceremony Modified at Mid Century
  • VI. The Question of Legislative Capacity: Problems of Regency Government
  • VII. The Royal Stance on the French Constitution: The Majority Lit de Justice Assembly of 1563
  • VIII. The Reversal of Parisian Parlementary Procedure: Reaction to the Majority Lit de Justice Assembly of 1563
  • IX. A Conservative Constitutional Course: The Royal Seance and the Lit de Justice Assembly 1569-1597
  • X. The Dynastic Monarchy in French Constitutional Ideology: The Inaugural Lit de Justice Assembly of 1610
  • XI. A Revision of Constitutional Ideology: The Coronation Entree to Reims in 1610
  • XII. The Articulation of Dynastic Right and Legislative Authority: Lit de Justice Assemblies 1614-1641
  • XIII. The Absolutist Monarchy in French Constitutional Ideology: The Royal Seance and the Lit de Justice Assembly 1643-1713
  • XIV. Epilogue: The Bourbon Cult of Rulership at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
  • Table One: The Legend of the Lit de Justice Assembly
  • Table Two: The Lit de Justice Assembly in the Recueil des roys de France of Jean du Tillet (ed. 1607)
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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