Status Updates From The Capetian Kings of Franc...

Adelns ökande relativa fattigdom mot borgerskapet, effekten av landdelning.

Domarvärdighetens roll i kungaskapet.

Stambeteendena i Capeternas relation till sina vasaller - det viktiga är rättigheterna, inte landet. Jmfr vad som sägs om Sarmaterna.

Blanche landköp och arvsarbete i Toulouse

Unam sanctam, bonifacius idé om kyrkodominerad politik; densammas fall.

Tidigare: notering om att en av definitionerna av kungaskapet var dess oförmåga att erkänna överhöghet

Kyrkans roll i den Merovingiska perioden.

St Louis

Philip II He said to me that a king should reward his men strictly in proportion to the services they had done him, and that no man could become a good ruler who was incapable of being as firm in refusing as he
was generous in giving.'

Louis VI: And, also according to Suger, when Louis knew
that he was dying he gave this parting advice to his son: 'Protect
the clergy and the poor and the fatherless. Do justice to every man.
Arrest no man in your own court when summoned thither, unless
he commits some offence there and then

de tidiga Capeterna som medelmåttor, och därmed beskyddare av kontinuitet.

An excellent look into the complexities of the dynastic life in France.