ABSTRACT
The multiplication of the capacity of the royal power to raise information by means of an increasingly complex judicial apparatus made the writing war of memories very uneven in the second half of the fifteenth century. Princes, however organized by means of leagues, letters, seals, and promises, faced an increasingly intrusive royal power well informed by spies and commissioners, economically hegemonic and militarily far superior. Despite the effort to preserve the high-nobiliarchic honor and the reasonable fidelity shown by the faithful of Nemours, the ability to produce legal truth from the extraordinary inquiry was profound. Inquiring, comparing, classifying, coercing, shaping perceptions were, together, a powerful weapon in those of real power.
Keywords:
Medieval Monarchies; High treason; Revolt of the Public Well