Customs & Institutions
This action was a manifestation of the nobility’s power and was emasculated by the rise of royal absolutism.
What is dueling or feuding?
This movement clashed with traditional, medieval ideas about vengeance, positing divine providence and that revenge is ultimately the Lord’s.
What was the Reformation?
This value defined nobility in the medieval court.
What is virtue?
As a non-monetary form of compensation, murderers were often forced to do this for their victims.
What is building a monument?
This official and reformer sought to curb biased, feud-influenced judicial rulings in the 1560s.
Who was Chancellor l'Hopital?
Anti-court sentiments grew in the late sixteenth century, as nobility was no longer influenced by "action" and "acting virtuously," but focused solely on this.
What is heredity?
For members of the nobility who found themselves being executed; they were exempt from this method of execution and instead given this method that was considered more dignified.
What is hanging and beheading?
This Huguenot leader and naval commander was assassinated and then thrown from a window during the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Who was Admiral de Coligny?
This is where sixteenth-century nobles went to escape from the servitude and expectations of court.
What is the countryside?
This class, first established in 1216, was a group of men who were considered “too powerful for the king not to consult them.”
This Prior, in his definitive book about reconciliation entitled ‘L’Arbitre charitable,’ warns that “French legal chicanery is the worst of all evils.”
Who was Alexandre de la Roche?
This late-sixteenth century conflict led the nobles to experience a prise de conscience.
What were the French Wars of Religion?
While exempt from land taxes, these income taxes still applied to nobles, although at a different rate.
The Capitation, the Dixieme, the Vingtieme
The strict Pierre Lizet was nicknamed this while serving as President of the Parlement of Paris and feuding with the Monclars.
Who was Chambre Ardente?
This Italian literary work influenced changes in court life in the early sixteenth century.
What is Castiglione's Courtier?