التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Mercy at War: Military Violence and the Politics of Royal Pardon in Fifteenth-Century France. |
| المؤلفون: |
Verreycken, Quentin |
| المصدر: |
French Historical Studies; May2024, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p187-218, 32p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
VIOLENCE, MILITARY personnel, PUBLIC policy (Law), CRIMINAL records, PROSECUTION, HUNDRED Years' War, 1339-1453 |
| مستخلص: |
This article examines the construction of military criminality and the granting of pardons to soldiers in late medieval France. By the beginning of the fifteenth century, the offenses perpetrated by men of war were a recurrent problem of public order for royal government. Criminal records as well as narrative sources used a rich terminology to qualify the military abuses suffered by the population, which distinguished criminal soldiers from ordinary offenders. Although these abuses were repeatedly denounced by political literature and were supposed to be severely punished according to legislation, the king of France frequently granted pardon letters to soldiers, allowing them to escape criminal prosecution in exchange for the continuation of their services. Far from being simply the result of a lax attitude of the king, these pardons reflected the fragile balance of royal power in the fifteenth century, which required the king to conciliate the exercise of justice and the conduct of warfare. Exploring the politics of royal pardon toward criminal soldiers and the reactions they provoked, the article demonstrates how the French crown dealt with military offenders at the end of the Hundred Years' War and during its aftermath. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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