France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500

by David Potter (Editor)

Overview

This volume traces the development of France and its identity in a period replete with crisis, from the Albigensian crusades in the first half of the thirteenth century, through the Hundred Years War, to the beginnings of the Italian wars in the 1490s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199250486
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/27/2003
Series:	Short Oxford History of France
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	673,802
Product dimensions:	8.46(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

David Potter is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent at Canterbury and has published widely on late medieval and early modern France.

Table of Contents

Introduction, David Potter1. The political world of France, c. 1200-1336, Jean Dunbabin2. Society and the economy, part 1: one the eve of the crisis, Pierre Charbonnier3. The crown and provinces in the fourteenth century, Michael Jones4. France and the Hundred Years War, Anne Curry5. Society and the economy, part 2: the crisis and its aftermath, Pierre Charbonnier6. The crown and the provinces in the sixteenth century, Graeme Small7. The king and his government under the Valois, David Potter8. The later medieval French noblesse, Gareth ProsserConclusion, David Potter