Nobility, Privilege and Fiscal Politics in Late Medieval France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Bell Henneman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-1 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286591 |
| OpenAlex | W2328244065 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Historians of early modern France seem to be in general agreement that nobles escaped paying the most important royal taxes, above all the taille, and that this exemption remained a sore point with nonnobles during the ancien regime.' In the fourteenth century, however, as royal taxes began to achieve regularity and institutional form, the nobles appeared to be losing ground steadily in their efforts to escape them. The documents of 1340-80 leave little basis for predicting that nobles would escape direct taxation by the sixteenth century.2 Clearly, the trends observable in the fourteenth century experienced a sharp reversal, one that can only be explained by political developments. When we speak of the nobles' privilege of tax-exemption, we are really describing the meeting point of three originally separate
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Royal Fiscal Systems and State Formation in France from the 13th to the 16th century, with some English Comparisons
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |