New Towns in Medieval France and Nature of Institutions

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ID12968291
AuthorsMarie-Christine Thaize Challier (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume3
Issue1
Publication date2011-05-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of European Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1918-7173 • E-ISSN: 1918-7181
PublisherCanadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5539/res.v3n1p13
OpenAlexW2105310381
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

Urban development was a key phenomenon in medieval Western Europe. This paper focuses on the relationship between the institutions and the new towns set up in France at that time. It interprets the institutional evolution on the basis of the actions of communities’ founders (kings or overlords) and dwellers to govern the transition through urban constitutions furthering civil, economic, administrative, and political laws. It highlights institutions by which the royal government acquired territory and increased its influence at the expense of feudal lords. It shows that some formal and informal institutions prevailed at a local level to provide the incentive structure to further the urban growth during the High Middle Ages whereas other formal and informal institutions predominated at the national (royal) level when the urban movement declined during the Late Middle Ages

Archaeology · Central government · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Feudalism · Geography · Government (linguistics · Incentive · Institution · Local government · Market economy · Middle Ages · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Public Administration

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