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The Hundred Years’ War and Change in the French Nobility

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2016, (34), pp.5~31
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Baik-Yong Sung 1

1한남대학교

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ABSTRACT

While change in the French nobility in the late Middle Ages has widely been discussed in the context of general crisis of the medieval society, closer inquiries need to be made regarding its correlation with the Hundred Years’ War that was an aspect as well as a factor of the crisis. Above all, as military mobilization of the nobles by way of arrière-ban were frequent and the royal taxation was established, a combination of tax exemption and military service constituted an essential prerequisite for the nobles as a legal class. Prolonged war accelerated its polarization and structural realignment as well. In the face of crisis most of the nobles came to find a breakthrough by contracting an alliance with the princes who sought to construct respective ‘princely states’ living off expanded royal finance, and finally by serving the royal authority that emerged as the eventual winner overwhelming its entire rivals.

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