Military Violence and the Politics of Royal Pardon in Late Medieval France
(2021) International Medieval Congress 2021 — Location: University of Leeds (5.July.2021)
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- In late medieval France, the granting of royal pardons to soldiers who committed a crime was almost a routine act, although the abuses committed by French combatants on population was repeatedly denounced by political literature and became severely punishable according to royal legislation. This paper discusses the regulation of military violence in fifteenth-century France according to pardon letters. It argues that this period saw a change in the politics of pardon of the French kings towards their soldiers, as military abuses had been more rarely pardoned from the second part of the fifteenth century onwards. It also shows how, in the petitions for pardon by French soldiers, the use of emotions (anger, fear, rancour) in their accounts of violence served to make their crimes more acceptable.
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Verreycken, Q. (2021). Military Violence and the Politics of Royal Pardon in Late Medieval France. International Medieval Congress 2021, University of Leeds. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/166523