Part 1 Introduction: the military conquest; French Guyenne - England, Spain and France - politics, the princes and Guyenne. Part 2 Institutions: government - the framework of government, military personnel under Charles VII, military personnel under Louis XI and Charles VIII, office and officers; the finances of Guyenne - economic recovery, the domain, taxation; justice - law, customs and records, the courts and the quality of justice, property and possession. Part 3 Political control: security - castle-building and artillery, military obligations, garrisoning and provisioning; crime and disorder - the "lettres de remission", crime and the seigneurs, crime and soldiers, tackling crime and disorder; rebellions and conspiracies - Guyenne 1452-1454, urban revolt and repression, noble rebellion; controlling the nobility - commands, pensions and ecclesiastical preferment, rewarding loyalty, noble connections. Part 4 Conclusion.
His major theme is continuity with the past and the limitations
imposed by that past upon the new French government's freedom of
action... the analysis of government, finance and justice is well
done... an important lacuna in the history of south-west France has
now been filled.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*
He has exploited a remarkably wide range of important archival
sources, administrative, judicial, urban and aristocratic, for this
study of the French province of Guyenne during the forty years
after the French conquest of Gascony in 1451-3, and provides a
fascinating case study of the processes whereby very disparate
provinces were integrated into the French kingdom in the second
half of the fifteenth century.
*HISTORY*
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