Law, city, and king
Subtitle: legal culture, municipal politics, and state formation in early modern Dijon
By: Michael P. Breen.
Series: Changing perspectives on early modern Europe -- v. 6
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781580462365
Subjects: Municipal government -- France -- Dijon -- History -- 17th century; Justice, Administration of -- France -- Dijon -- History -- 17th century; Political participation -- France -- Dijon -- History -- 17th century; Dijon (France) -- Politics and government -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lawyers and municipal government in Dijon; title: The avocats and the politics of local privilege (1595-1648); title: The collapse of the municipal political system (1649-68); title: From local government to royal administration (1669-1715); title: Legal culture and political thought in early seventeenth-century Dijon; title: Custom, reason, and the limits of royal authority.