Besnier and Génestal, Instrucions et Ensaignemens (1912)

Author(s): Georges Besnier (1879-1961) Robert Génestal (1872-1931)

Title: Instrucions et Ensaignemens: style de procéder d'une justice seigneuriale normande (1386-90)

Remarks:

Attributed by its editors to a judicial officer of the Abbey St Ouen at Caen, this work sets out procedures to be followed in a late 14^th-century manorial court, thus complementing the Ancien Style, Glose etc. of the higher Norman courts. How far these were typical of other seigneurial jurisdictions invites investigation. The publication forms volume 2 of the first series -- textes of the Bibliothèque d'Histoire du Droit Normand, an enterprise of the first half of the 20^th century of the law department of the University of Caen. Génestal is noticed elsewhere on this website (see the entry for his Tenure en Bourgage: étude sur la propriété foncière dans les villes Normandes); Georges Besnier was Archiviste de Calvados. Edition(s) (this copy in bold): 1912 Provenance of this copy: St John Robilliard Collection

Further reading:

N. Vidal, "Georges Besnier (1879-1961): un archiviste dans le siècle" in M. Aubry, I. Chave and V. Doom (ed.), Archives, Archivistes, Archivistique dans l'Europe du nord-ouest du moyen âge à nos jours: entre governance et mémoire (Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2007).