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Assemblies and Representation in Languedoc in the Thirteenth Century
By (Author) Thomas N. Bisson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
944.802
Hardback
380
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
709g
The author demonstrates that medieval assemblies have a significant history well before the great age of parliaments and Estates. He deals with assemblies, council, and consent, and shows how the older procedures were transformed by the increasingly bureaucratic Capetian governments after the royal conquest of Languedoc in the 13th century. Origin