Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders

Dumolyn, Jan

doi:10.1353/jsh.2007.0009

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“…This does not mean, however, that these other Netherlandish regions did not also know a stability of seigneurial institutions. 47 That said, the survey for Guelders does reveal an uneven spatial distribution of seigneuries between the studied Quarters, which is a warning against projecting subregional trends in the seigneurial landscape onto polities as a whole. Based on Guelders' political sub-division into Quarters, the Nijmegen district emerges as far more lordship-dense than the Arnhem region (Figure 1).…”

Section: Stability Of Seigneurial Governance C 1325-c 1570mentioning

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Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

Meulen

2021

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This article charts the long-term development of seigneurial governance within the principality of Guelders in the Low Countries. Proceeding from four quantitative cross-sections (c. 1325, 1475, 1540, 1570) of seigneurial lordships, the conclusion is that seigneurial governance remained stable in late medieval Guelders. The central argument is that this persistence of seigneurial governance was an effect of active collaboration between princely administrations, lords, and local communities. Together, the princely government and seigneuries of Guelders formed an integrated, yet polycentric, state. The article thereby challenges the narrative of progressive state centralisation that predominates in the historiography of pre-modern state formation.

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Section: Stability Of Seigneurial Governance C 1325-c 1570mentioning

confidence: 92%

Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

Meulen

2021

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“…1 The characteristics of the creation of a province-wide public debt system are still the subject of debate, but the realms of the Crown of Aragon were among the earliest to adopt it: Haemers 2015. 2 Literature so far has produced evidence of the emergence at the end of the Middle Ages of new power groups (Dumolyn, 2006) in which merchants succeeded thanks to specific knowledge (Tognetti 2018; Igual 2016). 3 An exhaustive list of documentary material is offered in the systematic analysis of the institution during the reign of Ferdinand II made by J. Ángel Sesma: Sesma 1977.…”

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L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century

2023

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The studies presented here analyze the relationship between the knowledge economy and innovations, productivity, and economic growth in the premodern period (13th-18th centuries) by considering the following questions: how was “useful knowledge” transmitted between individuals, across space, and across generations? How could commercial and industrial productivity have been associated with the expansion of such knowledge? When and where was useful knowledge concentrated in such a way that a relatively large number of innovations and inventions could cause revolutionary breakthroughs in particular sectors of the economy?

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“…С. Елдерсфельд та А. Арбон вивчають проблеми політичних еліт у модерних суспільствах , Е. Дапорієра розглядає особливості регіональних еліт у Франції , Дж. Дамолин приділяє увагу соціальному складу середньовічних еліт (Dumolyn, 2006), О. Шевчук досліджує імперативи розвитку корпоративної еліти (Шевчук, 2014) (Куц, 2010, с. 118).…”

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Socio-political representation at the level of territorial communities: reflection in the modern political discourse

Pobochii

2020

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The article considers the political evolution of territorial communities in democratic countries as a problem that reflects the local regional political authenticity and becomes the basis for applied research. The interrelation of the criteria of professionalization of managerial staff at the territorial level with local educational and scientific traditions is substantiated.The purpose of this article is to establish the level of reflection in the modern discourse of political science of socio-political representation of territorial communities.Research methods. The structural-functional method is used to analyze the criteria for staff promotion and their inclusion in certain management teams; the method of comparison used to relate to democratic procedures and practices of representation determines the quality of community development at the territorial level; a method of retrospective reconstruction to establish a high level of compliance with certain conditions of functioning in a controlled power environment, clear implementation of procedures, ensuring stability and implementation of a certain authoritarian course.Results. The assessment of the phenomenon of institutional inequality of communities determines the incomplete correspondence of elites of different levels in the former post-communist states. It is proved that the electoral variability of socio-political representation at the territorial level is manifested in the moderate position of the elites, their party and ideological mimicry in the conditions of insufficiently predictable and clear electoral result. Emphasis is placed on the factors of elite professionalism, which are not focused on managerial qualities, but are determined by archaic principles of situational loyalty and political expediency. The properties of population participation in the electoral process as a decisive factor in the qualitative political transformation of territorial communities are revealed. The specifics of the mechanisms of political representation and the processes of reforming territorial communities in the old European democracies and post-communist countries are noted. The substantiation of the tendency to preserve the internal elite patron clientelism and to ensure one's own position regardless of the political situation is proposed.

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Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century

Socio-political representation at the level of territorial communities: reflection in the modern political discourse

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