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Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Fig. 14.— Chateau de la Panouze (Aveyron), type of a French Feudal Castle of the FourteenthCentury, of -which remains still exist.—From a Miniature in a Manuscript in the NationalLibrary of Paris. superior, a middle, and an inferior judicial court were recognised. The firstalone possessed the power of life and death. The more considerable fiefs hadusually attached to them the right to exercise the highest justice, but therewere exceptions to this rule. A vavasseur, for instance, might sometimesappeal against this highest justice, while a seignior, who was only entitled toexercise the inferior justiciary rights, might inflict death on all robberscaught in flagrante delicto on his lands. FEUDALISM.
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Fig. 15.—View overlooking the Castle of Pierrefonds (beginning of the Fifteenth Century), asrestored by M. Viollet-le-Duc, in his Dictionnaire dArchitecture. The privilege of coining money, always a sure index of sovereignty,together with the exclusion of all foreign jurisdiction and of all external I 2 FEUDALISM. authority from the area of each fief, also constituted two important pre-rogatives. Finally, the fief, with its privileges, always remained intact; itpassed invariably to the eldest of the family, on the sole condition of hispaying homage to the suzerain. Most of the churches and abbeys, such as those of Saint-Denis, of Saint-Martin des Champs, and of Saint-Germain des Pres (Fig. 16), which proudlyreared their towers and spires opposite the Louvre of the kings of France,exercised on their own account all the feudal rights which they hadacquired by reason of the territorial possessions as well as by the concessionslavishly ceded to them by their sovereigns. The archbishops,

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