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Valois Guyenne: A Study of Politics, Government and Society in Late Medieval France (Royal Historical Society Studies in History)
Robin Harris
Hardcover. Royal Historical Society 1994-11.
ISBN 9780861932269
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Publisher description
At the end of the Hundred Years War in 1453, France's Valois government
faced the urgent task of securing the exposed former English province of
Gascony. Robin Harris draws on central and local sources to identify its
methods, and in doing so casts new light on how France was governed between the
end of the Hundred Years War and the beginning of the Italian Wars. The study
shows that although fear of the King's wrath inhibited real conspiracy and
rebellion, there was a limit on the royal government's effective control. The
great noble houses of the region had to be rewarded with patronage and
pensions, and this complicated network of terror and rewards, overlaid with a
conservative administrative-judicial system, made the Valois government in some
measure the victim of its own success: the greater the stability the fewer the
opportunities for binding the powerful by redistributing the confiscated
possessions of the rebellious. Dr Harris argues that it took Charles VIII's
launching in 1494 of his great and fateful Italian venture, with accompanying
opportunities for patronage and prestige, finally to secure Guyenne, and to
re-establish control over France. Dr ROBIN HARRIS read modern history at Exeter College, Oxford. In this title, Lancastrian Gascony is transformed into Valois Guyenne after
the Hundred Years War.
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