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Germigny-l'Exempt: ou Les Trois Deniers de Gaspard Six essais autour d'un monument d'art et d'histoire (French Edition)

by Emmanuel Legeard

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A work of medieval anthropological history in the same vein as Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou, and written with style, Emmanuel Legeard's "Germigny-l'Exempt" shows how a French village evolved from a Gallo-Roman villa to one of the most powerful strongholds in Europe, became the cradle of the Bourbon's power and eventually received an extraordinary church, just to fall back into oblivion at the beginning of the Renaissance period. An amazing book, that deserves to be translated. ( )
2 vote glarzat | May 17, 2023 |
I really appreciated the remarkable knowledge of the context. This is an essential work to put Germigny-l'Exempt in its proper place.
 
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Halte légendaire où Austrégésile entendit des voix, citadelle la plus forte du Bourbonnais de l'an mil, siège de Louis VI qui se solda par l'union des Bourbons à la couronne de France, Germigny devient un archiprêtré représentatif de la « genèse du territoire diocésain » à l'issue de la querelle des investitures de Bourges qui assura le triomphe des principes théocratiques de la réforme grégorienne en Berry et expédia Louis VII en pénitence en croisade. Les croisades, d'ailleurs, imprimeront à l'église de Germigny son cachet d'insolite. Occupée pour sa position stratégique par Bertucat d'Albret et rachetée à prix d'or par Louis II, la ville ne devait décliner qu'après la disgrâce du connétable de Bourbon et la translation de ses biens à un favori insignifiant de Louise de Savoie.
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