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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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tional Archives of France. vassal had ever claimed or obtained more in the exercise of his feudalrights (Fig. 18). The inauguration of the communal system had taken place without astruggle, and almost without opposition, as a useful and necessary reform atMetz, at Eheims, in a few midland towns, such as Bourges, Moulins, Lyons, * Neither the bishop nor the emperor can impose upon me any tax or tribute, nor have theythe power to call out the militia, except for the protection and defence of the town, and then onbfrom cockcrow to nightfall. i6 FEUD A %JSM. Perigeux, and in most of the southern cities, such as Aries, Aigues-Mort.es(Fig. 19), Marseilles, Narbonne, Cahbrs (Fig. 20), Carcassonne (Fig. 21),m mes, and Bordeaux. This was explained by the fact that this indepen-dent action of the people had been prepared by the system adopted by theFranks, who allowed no difference to exist between the condition of the con-quered and of the conquerors. The rights they might enjoy and the duties
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Fig. 18.—Thomas of Savoy, Count of Flanders, and Joan his Wife, grant to the Town of Cambraithe Charter of Peace made between the Counts of Hainaut and the Chapter of Cambrai in1240.—Miniature from the Chroniques de Hainaut, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century(Burgundian Library, Brussels). they were to perform had been equally shared amongst all the freedmen of themonarchy without any distinction as to nationality ; the Franks would havefeared, had they acted differently, that they were reserving for the sovereignthe possibility of using the oppressed nations as a weapon to overcome theconquerors themselves, and that in this way they might be leaving a loopholethrough which the monarchy might degenerate into despotism.

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