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Lordship and the state: alloy or emulsion?
- Abstract:
- At the diet of Worms in 1495, ‘it was weighed and resolved, especially by the Franconians, that they would not let themselves be put on a level with the French nobility, who once were also free’. In this moment of imperial reform, these lords were threatened with two significant extensions of state power – the abrogation of the right to feud and the levy of a universal ‘Common Penny’ tax across the Empire on the subjects of princes, lords, and towns alike; they were determined to resist. A few decades earlier, and seen from other countries, the French nobility had...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.2307/jj.31510186.9
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- Publisher:
- British Academy
- Host title:
- Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Europe
- Pages:
- 19-40
- Chapter number:
- 1
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy
- Series number:
- 268
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication date:
- 2025-01-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-05-29
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0068-1202
- EISBN:
- 9780197267998
- ISBN:
- 9780197267844
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English
- Pubs id:
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2017988
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pubs:2017988
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2024-07-23
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- Copyright date:
- 2025
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from British Academy at https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.31510186.9
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