Pouvoir d'État et enrichissement personnel : investissements et stratégies d'accumulation mis en œuvre par les officiers des ducs de Bourgogne en Flandre
State power and personal enrichment : investments and accumulation strategies carried out by the Duke of Burgundy’s officials in Flanders. In the Late Middle Ages, Flemish civil servants played a key role in the creation of the Burgundian State. The revenues they generated in various ways and fro...
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2008
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | State power and personal enrichment : investments and accumulation strategies
carried out by the Duke of Burgundy’s officials in Flanders.
In the Late Middle Ages, Flemish civil servants played a key role in the creation of
the Burgundian State. The revenues they generated in various ways and from various
sources were first invested in landed property by senior civil servants. The fiefs and
domains were indeed very valuable as symbols of authority and as a means of social
advancement. Furthermore, land, an essential means of production in feudal society,
continued to be the most important and safest kind of capital. For many senior civil
servants, inherited property brought in, on a yearly basis, as much or more than the
amounts that service to the State enabled them to pocket. It can justly be said that
some senior civil servants profited by renting out plots of land or entire buildings.
As much from the political as from the economic point of view, the creation of the
State meant, other than the salvation of some noble families, the success of newer
members of the power elite in the Burgundian State. |
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