Review
Custom, Law and Monarchy: A Legal History of Early Modern France. Marie Seong-Hak Kim,. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 290 pp. $100
Renaissance quarterly, Vol.77(4), pp.1313-1314
12/01/2024
DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2024.118
Abstract
[...]the announced aim of this study is to understand how the monarchy approached this panoply of customs and laws and, in the process, advanced its desire to achieve more effective governance. The efforts to reform customary law occurred at the very moment that France entered a period of political and social crisis. In this regard, Kim argues that the goal was a reconciliation of customary law solutions and Roman law principals cherished by humanist jurists that might unify and pacify the kingdom to better serve the king’s subjects.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Custom, Law and Monarchy: A Legal History of Early Modern France. Marie Seong-Hak Kim,. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 290 pp. $100
- Creators
- Raymond Mentzer
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Renaissance quarterly, Vol.77(4), pp.1313-1314
- DOI
- 10.1017/rqx.2024.118
- ISSN
- 0034-4338
- eISSN
- 1935-0236
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge
- Number of pages
- 2
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2024
- Academic Unit
- Classics and Religious Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984820562802771
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