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Dissertation Information for Frank E. Williams

NAME:
- Frank E. Williams

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- William H Beik

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- James Van Horn Melton
- Rondo Cameron

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The consuls of Agen from the end of the Hundred Years War to the beginning of the wars of religion

Abstract: Consuls during the Renaissance executed political power for the leading men of Agen, the proome , and claimed to govern for the entire community. This study explains the situation in which the consuls governed when supporters of English monarchs and those of the French finally resolved the century-long civil war to determine which dynasty would rule the kingdom. The proome established self-government in Agen, and amidst the crises of the Albigensian Crusade, a 1248 revolt in Agen, and the Hundred Years War, the consuls became the dominant political institution in the town. The consuls provided one source of justice in the community, deriving their authority from Agen\'s constitutional basis of written customs, charters of privileges, and actions taken by governing officials. Three institutions--the seigneur and king of France, the bishop, and the consuls--traditionally shared power in Agen, but in the century leading to Reformation and religious civil war, the consuls and royal officials increasingly claimed and commanded that power, resulting in repeated conflicts with clergy and growing authority for those elite of Agen who served as royal justices. Local proome , serving as both consuls and royal justices, undermined the traditional role of the bishop in Agen and thereby upset a balance of power within the community.

Consuls led town assemblies and represented Agen in estates of the pays , the province, and the kingdom, but the increasingly fewer participants in the political process and the increasing role of royal institutions provoked a revolt in 148 1. The consuls\' all-important police responsibilities enabled them to regulate markets in various products and both to collect and fight tolls upon the rivers and roads of the southwest. In addition, they provided many public goods within Agen, policed public health and morality, and supervised religious practices, activities which brought confrontation with religious reformers. Their efforts led them to seek more taxes and contributed to the revolt against their government which came in 1514 and to the much greater revolt in France beginning in 1561. The governing of a town explains much about the Renaissance era in France.

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