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24 April 2025

BOOK: Erika GRAHAM-GOERING, Jim VAN DER MEULEN & Frederik BUYLAERT (eds.), Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Europe [Proceedings of the British Academy] (Oxford: OUP, 2025), 316 p. ISBN 9780197267844, 130 USD

 

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Table of contents:

List of Figures and Maps
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Introduction: Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Erika Graham-Goering, Jim van der Meulen, and Frederik Bulaert
1. Lordship and the State: Alloy or Emulsion?, John Watts
Part I Case Studies of Lordship in France and the Low Countries
2. Integrative Approaches to (Co-)Lordship in Late Medieval Languedoc, Erika Graham-Goering
3. Rehabilitating Norman Lordship: The Fief of Hauberk and its Judicial Rights in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Yasline Bourgine De Meder
4. (De)Centralising Governance in Late Medieval France: Actors and Mechanisms, Georg Jostkleigrewe
5. Seigneurial Lordship and the State in the County of Flanders (c. 1350-1550), Frederick Buylaert
6. Pursuit of Nobility and the Priorities of Political Representatives in Early 15th-Century Flanders, Wim Blockmans
7. Lordship in Medieval Holland and Zeeland, Rombert Stapel and Arie van Steensel
8. Urban Political Elites and Seigneurial Lordship: Antwerp and its Hinterland (c. 1400-1550), Janna Everaert and Sieben Feys
9. The Seigneurial Landscapes of Riverine Brabant and Guelders (15th-16th Centuries), Mario Damen and Jim van der Meulen
Conclusions to Part I: Lordship, Commonwealth, Variegated Polities, and the State, Elizabeth A. R. Brown
Part II European Historiographies of Lordship
10. Lordship and State Formation in Late Medieval England, Chris Given-Wilson
11. Lordship and State Formation in Scotland, 1300-1500, Alice Taylor
12. Lordship and State Formation in the Holy Roman Empire, 1300-1550, Hillay Zmora
13. A Land of Lords: Lordship and State Formation in the Italian Peninsula, Francesco Bozzi
14. Jurisdiction: The Crooked Leg of Lordship? State Formation in Castile in the 15th Century, José Antonio Jara Fuente
15. Lordship and State in Scandinavia, c. 1300-1500, Hans Jacob Orning
Conclusions to Part II: State and Lordship: Concluding Remarks, Jean Philippe Genet
Index

On the editors:

Erika Graham-Goering, Associate Professor, University of Oslo,Jim van der Meulen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University,Frederik Buylaert, Full Professor, Ghent University Erika Graham-Goering is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo. Jim van der Meulen is a social historian at Ghent University with a broad specialisation in the Low Countries between 1300 and 1700, combining expertise in political, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental history. Frederik Buylaert, Professor of History at Ghent University, is a social historian of the Low Countries with a side interest in comparative history and the history of historiography. 

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