The Crown and the Aristocracy in Renaissance France

Major, John

doi:10.2307/1845781

“…France was a 'natural state' and control over local courts was a source of rents for the provincial nobility (North et al, 2009). The disbursement of these revenue streams helped to ensure domestic peace (Major, 1962(Major, , 1964(Major, , 1994.…”

Section: Fiscal and Legal Fragmentation In Early Modern Francementioning

confidence: 99%

Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France

Johnson

¹

,

Koyama

²

2014

The Journal of Law and Economics

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This paper explores the rise of the fiscal state in the early modern period and its impact on legal capacity. To measure legal capacity, we establish that witchcraft trials were more likely to take place where the central state had weak legal institutions. Combining data on the geographic distribution of witchcraft trials with unique panel data on tax receipts across 21 French regions, we find that the rise of the tax state can account for much of the decline in witch trials during this period. Further historical evidence supports our hypothesis that higher taxes led to better legal institutions.

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“…France was a 'natural state' and control over local courts was a source of rents for the provincial nobility (North et al, 2009). The disbursement of these revenue streams helped to ensure domestic peace (Major, 1962(Major, , 1964(Major, , 1994.…”

Section: Fiscal and Legal Fragmentation In Early Modern Francementioning

confidence: 99%

Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France

Johnson

¹

,

Koyama

²

2012

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This paper explores the rise of the fiscal state in the early modern period and its impact on legal capacity. To measure legal capacity, we establish that witchcraft trials were more likely to take place where the central state had weak legal institutions. Combining data on the geographic distribution of witchcraft trials with unique panel data on tax receipts across 21 French regions, we find that the rise of the tax state can account for much of the decline in witch trials during this period. Further historical evidence supports our hypothesis that higher taxes led to better legal institutions.

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“…In the end the colonel went free after the case was referred to the royal council for resolution, and Marie married the old duke two years later. 113 Governesses exercised political influence, as we have seen in the case of Suzanne de Bourbon-Busset. Madeleine de Venel was the governess of Mazarin's nieces, and the baron d'Oppede accused her of using her influence with the Cardinal to interfere in the politics of Provence where her husband lived.…”

Section: VImentioning

confidence: 91%

The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen*

Kettering

¹

1989

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It has been suggested that the political and economic power of Renaissance noblewomen declined significantlyfrom what it had been during the heyday of feudalism, and that this decline was caused by the expansion of royalpower and the growth of national monarchies, the development of centralization and the bureaucratization of government – in other words the creation of formal, male-dominated institutions to which women could not belong. Joann McNamara and Suzanne Wemple have written, ‘However, with the growth of a more structured society, where church and state aimed at centralized control, women of the high and late middle ages (1100–1500) found their rights and role increasingly curtailed and their ambitions frustrated. Women who held the most influential positions were the first to suffer from these restrictions.’

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The Crown and the Aristocracy in Renaissance France

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Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France

Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France

Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France

The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen*

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