E.A.R. Brown and R.C.Famiglietti
The Lit de Justice

Beihefte der Francia
Herausgegeben vom Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris
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The Lit de Justice: Semantics, Ceremonial, and the Parlement of Paris 1300-1600
by Elizabeth A.R. Brown and Richard C. Famiglietti

Elizabeth A.R. Brown and Richard C. Famiglietti
The Lit de Justice: Semantics, Ceremonial, and the Parlement of Paris 1300-1600

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Illustrations

I. Preface

II. Royal Sessions of the Parlement of Paris in the Fourteenth Century: From Lit to Lit de Justice

III. Lit de Justice, Apparatus and Institution, in the Fifteenth Century

IV. The King and the Parlement, 1492-1524

V. Francis I, the Parlement, and the Lit de Justice

VI. The Lit de Justice in Theory and Practice During the Reign of Henry II

VII. Charles IX and the Lit de Justice

Fig. 1: Trial of Robert of Artois, 1332
Fig. 2: Trial of Robert of Artois, 1332. From a manuscript owned by Lord Mostyn, sold in London on 13 July 1920.

Fig. 3: Gaignières Watercolor of the Trial of Robert of Artois, 1332

Fig. 4: Engraving based on the Gaignières Watercolor of the Trial of Robert of Artois, 1332

Fig. 5: Miniature Depicting the Trial of the Duke of Alençon, 1458, Attributed to Jean Fouquet

Fig. 6: Miniature from a Copy of the Chronicle of Jean Chartier (1471), Accompanying the Account of the Trial of Alençon, 1458, and Depicting a 'Lit de Justice'

Fig. 7: Gaignières Watercolor of the Presentation Miniature in the Copy of Jean Corbechon's Translation of De proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus made for Tanneguy du Chastel and his Wife Jeanne of Malestroit between 1462 and 1477

Fig. 8: Presentation Miniature in the Copy of Jean Corbechon's Translation of De proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus made for Tanneguy du Chastel and his Wife Jeanne of Malestroit between 1462 and 1477

Fig. 9: Engraving based on the Gaignières Watercolor of the Presentation Miniature in the Copy of Jean Corbechon's Translation of De proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus made for Tanneguy du Chastel and his Wife Jeanne of Malestroit between 1462 and 1477

VIII. Jean du Tillet and the Lit de Justice

IX. Conclusion

Appendix I
The Records of the Suit and Trial of Robert of Artois

Appendix II
Anonymous Memorandum on Royal Sessions in the Parlement of Paris

Bibliography

Index

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