Jura in medio: the settlement of seigneurial disputes in later medieval Languedoc
Justine Firnhaber-Baker
The classic works on medieval dispute processing—meaning the pursuit and settlement of violent conflict, usually by aristocrats—focus France in high Middle Ages. Stephen White’s famous articles ‘Feuding peacemaking’ ‘Pactum … legem vincit et amor judicium’ deal with western around 1100; Frederic Cheyette’s ‘Suum cuique tribuere’ addresses southern eleventh twelfth centuries; Patrick Geary’s ‘Living conflicts stateless France’ has similar chronological boundaries.1 strategies practices which France’s post-millennial elites pursued concluded their disputes through violence negotiation continue to attract interest. recent festschrift published honour White Richard Barton legal clamores eleventh- twelfth-century Normandy Anjou Cynthia Johnson peacemaking early thirteenth-century Occitania.2 Similarly, Warren Brown Piotr Górecki’s Conflict Medieval Europe offers essays Flanders, Alsace, Mâconnais between 1000 1200.3
French History