In a fresh examination of the French ceremonial entry, Neil Murphy considers the role these events played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Moving away from the customary focus on the pageantry, this book focuses on how urban governments used these ceremonies to offer the ruler (or his representatives) petitions regarding their rights, liberties and customs. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ceremonial entries lay at the heart of how the state functioned in later medieval and Renaissance France.
Author(s): Neil Murphy
Series: Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance, 7
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 308
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Framing Royal Entries
Sources and Perspectives
Geography and Chronology
Overview
Chapter 1. Confirming Municipal Liberties
The 'Harangue'
Keys and Banners
Changes to the Extramural Greeting
The 'Loggia'
Chapter 2. Petitioning the King
Gift-Giving
The Second 'Harangue'
The Gifts
Designing the Gift
A Typology of Requests
Financial and Economic Requests
Defence
Urban Justice and Administration
Religious Requests
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Accessing the King
Brokers and Networks of Clientage
The Chancellor
Royal Secretaries and the Ratification of Urban Grants
'Domestiques et Commensaux du Roi'
Royal Women and Royal Entries
Chapter 4. Royal Authority in the Provinces
Planning Governors’ Entries
The Canopy
Governors’ Networks of Clientage
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
