Lordship, Capitalism, and the State in Flanders (c. 1250–1570)
This book engages with recent debates on lordship as a cornerstone of rural society in Europe. As a distinct outlier in the spectrum of possibilities, Flanders provides an extreme example of a scenario in which seigneuries were not so much vehicles for noble rulership as instruments for village comm...
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| author | Buylaert and Miet Adriaens, Frederik |
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| description | This book engages with recent debates on lordship as a cornerstone of rural society in Europe. As a distinct outlier in the spectrum of possibilities, Flanders provides an extreme example of a scenario in which seigneuries were not so much vehicles for noble rulership as instruments for village communities to defend their interests. Imagining the Low Countries as a proto-bourgeois society, historians always assumed that local lordship was effectively crushed between strong cities and states, but in fact its importance for Flemish society was just as great and possibly greater at the start of the Dutch Revolt in 1567 than it was around the mid-thirteenth century, where this study begins. As both towns and princely administrations provided villagers with a shield against capricious lords, the seigneurie could only continue to function if it was closely aligned with the interests of peasants. The self-rule of Flemish peasantries through lordship meant that the seigneurie was the forum in which contemporaries made a critical decision, that being how to respond to the new and all-encompassing phenomenon of agrarian capitalism, a mode of agricultural production that first emerged in the Low Countries and Flanders before spreading to the rest of the globe. The birth of what we call ‘middle-class lordship’ helps scholars to understand how power relations between lords and peasants differed from one region to the next in dialogue with different trajectories in urbanization, economic change, and state formation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1729142026-03-01T05:10:59Z Lordship, Capitalism, and the State in Flanders (c. 1250–1570) Buylaert and Miet Adriaens, Frederik Lordship State formation Agrarian capitalism Low Countries Peasants Villages Elites Social inequality thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history This book engages with recent debates on lordship as a cornerstone of rural society in Europe. As a distinct outlier in the spectrum of possibilities, Flanders provides an extreme example of a scenario in which seigneuries were not so much vehicles for noble rulership as instruments for village communities to defend their interests. Imagining the Low Countries as a proto-bourgeois society, historians always assumed that local lordship was effectively crushed between strong cities and states, but in fact its importance for Flemish society was just as great and possibly greater at the start of the Dutch Revolt in 1567 than it was around the mid-thirteenth century, where this study begins. As both towns and princely administrations provided villagers with a shield against capricious lords, the seigneurie could only continue to function if it was closely aligned with the interests of peasants. The self-rule of Flemish peasantries through lordship meant that the seigneurie was the forum in which contemporaries made a critical decision, that being how to respond to the new and all-encompassing phenomenon of agrarian capitalism, a mode of agricultural production that first emerged in the Low Countries and Flanders before spreading to the rest of the globe. The birth of what we call ‘middle-class lordship’ helps scholars to understand how power relations between lords and peasants differed from one region to the next in dialogue with different trajectories in urbanization, economic change, and state formation. 2026-03-01T05:10:54Z 2026-03-01T05:10:54Z 2026-02-28T20:09:09Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110261 9780198945727 9780198945758 9780198945741 9780198945734 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172914 mul open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/110261/1/9780198945727.pdf Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Medieval European History 10.1093/9780198945758.001.0001 10.1093/9780198945758.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 9780198945727 9780198945758 9780198945741 9780198945734 Oxford Studies in Medieval European History 368 Oxford open access |
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