Musin, Aude
[UCL]
Urban communities have developed institutions and original methods of regulation to control aggressiveness. Medieval urban authorities have resorted to different methods of regulation of this violence : truces, measures of safeguard favouring threatened people, peace agreements,… enable to maintain peace. Beside those agreements, urban justice developed other procedures enabling violence to be framed and maintained in tolerable limits, such as fines set to sanction bodily injuries or insults. The study of urban justice in Namur between 1363 and 1555 enabled to better comprehend these regulation mechanisms of violence, that permit to channel it without criminalising it. Around the turn of the 16th century, central authorities brought their own means of framing violence. The general phenomenon of passing from “urban sociability” to “State criminalisation” is now well known. However, the concrete evolutions of urban conciliation and regulation procedures and their complementarity/competition with the regulation methods set up by the prince and the central institutions have not been much studied so far.
Bibliographic reference |
Musin, Aude. Pour ce que c’estoit chose non permectable en ville de police. Violence Regulation in the Cities of the Low Countries (Namur, 14th-16th centuries).10th International Conference on Urban History (Gand, du 01/09/2010 au 04/09/2010). |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135848 |