ISBN-13: 9780860783251 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 352 str.
The feudal system has come to be seen as one of the most characteristic features of the Western Middle Ages, yet the study of feudal law has not always received the same attention as that given to its institutions. This law, it is true, was a subject of secondary importance in the medieval universities, but there does remain a corpus of writing sufficiently large to permit the investigation of how it related to medieval practice. In these articles, now provided with extensive additional notes, Gerard Giordanengo has undertaken such an investigation, with particular reference to Southern France in the 12th-14th centuries. He shows how, in Provence, legal doctrine did exert a clear influence on feudal practice, and that it was the jurists attached to princely or ecclesiastic entourages who were the key to its dissemination. In the Dauphine, on the other hand, theory had a more limited impact, and feudal ties became not a mark of subjection, but a means of recognising legal and social status. At the governmental level, finally, he argues that it was not any feudal theory, nor even any feudal structures, but rather the absolutist doctrines of Roman law and the Old Testament that shaped the political ideology a and practice, if possible a of the medieval king. Le systeme feodal est considere comme etant la une des caracteristiques fondamentales du Moyen Age occidental; cependant, la etude du droit feodal savant na a pas toujours fait la objet de la mA me attention que celle portee A ses institutions et coutumes. Ce droit, il est vrai, etait un sujet da importance secondaire au sein des universites medievales, mais il reste neanmoins, un ensemble da ecrits suffisamment important pour qua il soit possible da examiner son influence sur la pratique medievale. Au cours de ces articles, des A present pourvus de notes supplementaires, Gerard Giordanengo a entrepris une telle analyse, se referant plus particulierement au Sud de la France, aux 12 e et 13 e. Il montre comment, en Provence, la doctrine legale exerA ait une influence tres nette sur la pratique feodale et, A la clef de sa dissemination, se trouvaient les juristes de la entourage des princes et des prelats. En Dauphine, cependant, le droit savant avait un impact limite et les liens feodaux na en faisaient pas une marque de sujetion, mais un moyen de reconnaissance da un certain statut juridique et social. Finalement, au niveau gouvernemental, selon la auteur, ce na etait ni la theorie feodale ou mA me les structures feodales, mais les doctrines absolutistes du droit romain qui formaient la ideologie et, si possible, la pratique politique du roi medieval."