Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–1450

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI:10.1093/pastj/gtae035
Ron Mordechai Makleff
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By the thirteenth century, confederations of communes in western Europe were claiming important legal, political and military prerogatives for themselves in written charters of inter-urban alliance. Scholars have seen these alliances as a tool of the emerging economic elite or as forces of resistance to the sovereign territorial state taking shape in the late Middle Ages. To understand alternatives to princely polity formation in the wealthy, urbanized regions of Brabant, Flanders and Liège, however, this article studies urban alliances as a power in their own right by examining how new documentary practices contributed to older traditions of inter-urban collaboration. Towns and their coalitions created and distributed bilateral, multilateral and hybrid or concentric charters of alliance and kept them in their own archives, which they saw as repositories of legal security and authority. Meanwhile, archivists, chancellors and other technicians of legitimacy helped princes to consolidate legal superiority over their supposedly subject towns by spearheading the confiscation and destruction of communal archives, in particular their charters of alliance. They thus obscured the scale of inter-urban solidarity: this article reports fifty-eight unique alliances preserved in over 200 charters between 1219 and 1444 across these three regions.
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1250-1450 年南低地国家的城市间联盟与合法性档案
到 13 世纪,西欧的市镇联盟在城市间联盟的书面章程中为自己争取到了重要的法律、政治和军事特权。学者们将这些联盟视为新兴经济精英的工具,或中世纪晚期形成的主权领土国家的抵抗力量。然而,为了了解布拉班特、佛兰德斯和列日等富裕的城市化地区形成王权政体的替代方案,本文通过研究新的文献实践如何促进旧的城市间合作传统,将城市联盟本身作为一种力量进行研究。城镇及其联盟创建并分发双边、多边、混合或同心联盟宪章,并将其保存在自己的档案馆中,将其视为法律安全和权威的宝库。与此同时,档案管理员、校长和其他合法性技术人员通过带头没收和销毁社区档案,特别是联盟宪章,帮助王公巩固对其所谓臣民城镇的法律优势。因此,他们掩盖了城市间团结的规模:本文报告了这三个地区在 1219 年至 1444 年间 200 多份契约中保存的 58 个独特的联盟。
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