Table of Contents

David Potter: Introduction
1: Jean Dunbabin: The political world of France, c. 1200-1336
2: Pierre Charbonnier: Society and the economy, part 1: one the eve of the crisis
3: Michael Jones: The crown and provinces in the fourteenth century
4: Anne Curry: France and the Hundred Years War
5: Pierre Charbonnier: Society and the economy, part 2: the crisis and its aftermath
6: Graeme Small: The crown and the provinces in the sixteenth century
7: David Potter: The king and his government under the Valois
8: Gareth Prosser: The later medieval French noblesse
David Potter: Conclusion

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.