Le pouvoir royal face au phénomène des tournois (milieu xiiie siècle-milieu xive siècle)
During the second half of the middle ages, in France tournaments enjoy a great popularity, especially among nobility. Nevertheless, these martial games often disturb public tranquillity and are likely to divert subjects from crusades and royal wars. That’s the reason why, from the XIIth century, tou...
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| Language: | fra |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Jean Moulin |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cjm/94 |
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| Summary: | During the second half of the middle ages, in France tournaments enjoy a great popularity, especially among nobility. Nevertheless, these martial games often disturb public tranquillity and are likely to divert subjects from crusades and royal wars. That’s the reason why, from the XIIth century, tournaments are subjected to regulations coming from both ecclesiastical and secular authorities. If the prohibitions decreed by the Church against these activities have often hold historians’ attention, the kings of France’s policy in this matter is less known, despite some interesting works. Yet, the subject is rich: from the middle of the XIIIth century until the middle of the XIVth, the crown regularly decreed laws prohibiting these perilous games. The purpose of this article, which is based on the study of royal documentation produced from the reign of Louis IX to the reign of Philippe VI, is to make an inventory of royal laws concerning tournaments, to analyze their provisions, and to estimate their efficiency. First, this work underlines that the prohibitions of the crown, over the years, reach greater ambitions: originally temporary and aiming to mobilize subjects about royal wars, prohibitions, as years go by, become more and more durable and more and more concerned about daily preservation of public peace. Furthermore, undertaken researches give indications that, in spite of a problematic implementation, royal legislation is enforced, at least in a certain extent: indeed, sources show coercive and punitive actions undertaken by kingship against known offenders. These observations attest to the decisive nature of a time for history of institutions, a time during which kingship succeeds better and better imposing her law and maintaining order in her kingdom. |
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| ISSN: | 2553-9221 |