| Description | | - The only volume available in English to trace the development of France and its identity from the early 13th century through to the eve of the Reformation.
- Includes expert contributions covering state-building, the political world, the economy and society, the relationship between crown and provinces, the Hundred Years War, and the role of the nobility.
- Strong focus on relations between the centre and the regions builds upon recent developments in the historiography of France in this period.
- Separate chapter on the nobility provides a useful introduction to this important area of late medieval historiography.
| The three centuries from 1200 to 1500, from the Albigensian Crusades, though the catastrophic defeats of Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, to the beginnings of the Italian Wars, were crucial in the development of the identity of France as a kingdom and as an idea in the minds of its people. They saw sharp upheavals both in the material fortunes and in the cohesiveness of the country, with an
initial period of consolidation under the later Capetian kings followed by political disintegration, war, and the economic crisis of which the Black Death was an integral part. These years witnessed not only the development of the main institutions of the monarchical state but also the growth of regional principalities which paralleled the power of the crown, and only towards the end of the
fifteenth century were the contradictions between the two resolved.
Concentrating on central themes such as the tensions between the crown and the regions, the growth of political institutions, noble identity, and socio-economic crisis, the expert contributions in this book trace the development of the French kingdom from the struggle to exert monarchical authority in the south of the country
through to the opening chapters of the French monarchy's struggle for supremacy in Italy. |
Readership: Students or the general reader with an interest in medieval French history
| Contents |
Introduction
,
David Potter
1.
The political world of France, c. 1200-1336
,
Jean Dunbabin
2.
Society and the economy, part 1: one the eve of the crisis
,
Pierre Charbonnier
3.
The crown and provinces in the fourteenth century
,
Michael Jones
4.
France and the Hundred Years War
,
Anne Curry
5.
Society and the economy, part 2: the crisis and its aftermath
,
Pierre Charbonnier
6.
The crown and the provinces in the sixteenth century
,
Graeme Small
7.
The king and his government under the Valois
,
David Potter
8.
The later medieval French noblesse
,
Gareth Prosser
Conclusion
,
David Potter
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by David Potter, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Kent at Canterbury
General Editor: William Doyle
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