De Bono Communi: The Discourse and Practice of the Common Good in the European City (13th-16th c.) = Discours et pratique du Bien Commun dans les villes d'Europe (XIIIe au XVIe siècle)

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Traditionally confined to the sphere of the State and of auctoritas, the phrase the Common Good is set to conquer the cities in the late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the Early Modern period. But can we compare a kingdom like France where the cities defend their Common Good by making reference to the interest and benefit of the Kingdom with principalities like Flanders where, despite their fierce desire for autonomy, the cities use the notion with much greater reservation than their Italian counterparts? This volume traces the intellectual and theoretical roots that have led to the emergence of the notion of the Common Good in the urban world of Western Europe by analysing the practical forms of its manifestations.

Author(s): Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), 22
Publisher: Brepols
Year: 2010

Language: English, French
Pages: 296
City: Turnhout

ELODIE LECUPPRE-DESJARDIN & ANNE-LAURE VAN BRUAENE / Introduction 1
ALBERT RIGAUDIÈRE / Donner pour le Bien Commun et contribuer pour les biens communs dans les villes du Midi français du XIIIe au XVe siècle 11
GISELA NAEGLE / Armes à double tranchant? Bien Commun et chose publique dans les villes françaises au Moyen Âge 55
CLAIRE BILLEN / Dire le Bien Commun dans l’espace public. Matérialité épigraphique et monumentale du bien commun dans les villes des Pays-Bas, à la fin du Moyen Âge 71
PIERRE MONNET / Bien Commun et bon gouvernement: le traité politique de Johann von Soest sur la manière de bien gouverner une ville (Wye men wol eyn statt regyrn sol, 1495) 89
EBERHARD ISENMANN / The notion of the Common Good, the concept of politics, and practical policies in Late Medieval and Early Modern German cities 107
ROBERT STEIN, ANITA BOELE & WIM BLOCKMANS / Whose community? The origin and development of the concept of Bonum commune in Flanders, Brabant and Holland (twelfth – fifteenth century) 149
ARJAN VAN DIXHOORN / The grain issue of 1565–1566. Policy making, public opinion, and the Common Good in the Habsburg Netherlands 171
WALTER PREVENIER / Utilitas communis in the Low Countries (thirteenth – fifteenth centuries): from social mobilisation to legitimation of power 205
GERVASE ROSSER / Guilds and confraternities: architects of unnatural community 217
GIACOMO TODESCHINI / Participer au Bien Commun: la notion franciscaine d’appartenance à la civitas 225
PATRICK BOUCHERON / Politisation et dépolitisation d’un lieu commun. Remarques sur la notion de Bien Commun dans les villes d’Italie centro-septentrionales entre commune et seigneurie 237
JAN DUMOLYN & ELODIE LECUPPRE-DESJARDIN / Le Bien Commun en Flandre médiévale: une lutte discursive entre princes et sujets 253
ANDREA ZORZI / Bien Commun et conflits politiques dans l’Italie communale 267