Later Medieval France

《中世纪晚期的法国》（约1300 -1460年）对瓦卢瓦王国君主的政治和社会变革进行了新的分析，是40年来第一本关于这一主题的英文著作。而不是看到王国的政治历史作为一个功能的日益增长的皇家中央集权和中世纪后期危机的后果，“中世纪后期的法国”证明了证据的重要性，从地区和地方的关键政治作用所发挥的贵族，分组的关系领主，亲属和客户关系到强大的利益集团，和王国的贵族，其领导人获得了前所未有的影响力和权威。在对政治变革的新分析中，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晚期的发展。

'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.