Gouverner et administrer les principautés des Alpes aux Pyrénées (XIIIe–début XVIe siècle) , ed. Dominique Bidot-Germa, Pierre Courroux and Véronique Lamazou-Duplan
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2026
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Abstract
This volume brings together seventeen essays, introduced by a short preface, on the governance of the principalities between the Pyrenees and the Alps in the late Middle Ages. The polities and territories analysed in this volume range widely in size and status. At one end we find Savoy, de facto independent and a duchy from 1416 (the subject of a historiographical essay by Guido Castelnuovo), and the small kingdom of Navarre, with the volume’s sole chapter in Spanish, tracing the strategies through which the Evreux dynasty of French nobles sought to represent their newly acquired royal status (Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero). At the other end lie the vicomté of Limoges and the Albret seigneurie, which less obviously qualify as principalities. Working out a methodical definition of principalities, however, was not the aim of the volume’s editors (Dominique Bidot-Germa, Pierre Courroux and Véronique Lamazou-Duplan), who are nevertheless candid about the problems raised by their subject (for example, does the prince—of royal blood—make the principality, or does the principality make the prince?). Rather, their approach is rooted in the French historiography of the past half-century and views the principality as an area in which the king could only act with the consensus and through the mediation of the prince (p. 9). Obviously this does not hold for Navarre and Savoy, which lay outside the kingdom of France, but it is also problematic for, for example, the county of Foix, which as part of the kingdom was under the legal and fiscal jurisdiction of the seneschal of Toulouse, a royal official—notwithstanding the negotiation of specific exemptions, as shown by Claudine Pailhès (pp. 125–6). But the late medieval principality is such a staple of French historiography, with the appanages created by the last direct Capetian and the first Valois kings for cadet branches of the dynasty at the pinnacle, that the contributors to this volume saw the merit of pushing the boundaries of the concept as long as it brought more case-studies under a common theme.
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| Authors | Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici |
| Journal | The English Historical Review |
| Year | 2026 |
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