Later Medieval France

《中世纪后期的法国》（约1300-1460年）对瓦卢瓦王朝的政治和社会变化进行了新的分析，是40年来第一本关于这一主题的单独撰写的英语书籍。《中世纪后期的法国》没有把王国的政治史看作是不断增长的皇室集权和中世纪晚期危机的结果，而是展示了来自地区和地方的证据的重要性，这些证据表明贵族所扮演的关键政治角色，通过领主关系、亲属关系和委托人关系组成强大的利益集团，以及王国的市政当局，其领导人获得了前所未有的影响力和权威。在对政治变化的新分析中，作者注意到这一时期欧洲历史的更广泛背景，以及法兰西王国历史上早期和后期的发展。

'Later Medieval France' (c.1300-1460) presents a new analysis of political and social change within the kingdom of the Valois monarchs, and is the first single-authored English-language book on the subject in 40 years. Rather than see the political history of the kingdom as a function of growing royal centralisation and the consequence of late medieval crisis, 'Later Medieval France' demonstrates the importance of the evidence from region and locality of the key political role played by the nobility, grouped by ties of lordship, kinship and clientage into powerful interest groups, and of the municipalites of the kingdom, whose leaders attained unprecedented levels of influence and authority. In this fresh analysis of political change, the author is mindful of the wider context of European history in the period, and of earlier and later developments in the history of the French kingdom.