A reconsideration of aristocratic violence and the rise of the royalist French state from the Albigensian Crusade to Agincourt.

Justine Firnhaber-Baker is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews.

Introduction: history, historians, and Seigneurial War; 1. War and peace in post-Albigensian Languedoc, 1250-70; 2. Philip the Fair's mission from God, 1270-1314; 3. The last Capetians and the Hundred Years War, 1315-50; 4. The changing experience of violence, 1350-64; 5. Violence and the state, 1365-1400; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.