Medieval Statecraft and the Perspectives of History

Cover Title Page, Copyright Editors' Note Foreword Contents List of Abbreviations 1. The Writ of Novel Disseisin in Normandy at the End of the Thirteenth Century 2. Economic Conditions in the County of Beaumont-le-Roger, 1261-1313 3. A Forged Charter of Henry II for Bival 4. On the Early Norman Charters, 911-1066 5. Normandy and Languedoc 6. The Two Levels of Feudalism 7. The Development of Feudal Institutions 8. The Tokugawa Period and Japanese Feudalism 9. The Crusade Against Aragon 10. The Political Crusades of the Thirteenth Century 11. The Crusades of Louis IX 12. Philip the Fair¬タヤA "Constitutional" King 13. Viscounts and Viguiers under Philip the Fair 14. Pierre de Chalon and the Origins of the French Customs Service 15. Italian Bankers and Philip the Fair 16. The Laicization of French and English Society in the Thirteenth Century 17. The Statute of York and the Community of the Realm 18. Defense of the Realm and Royal Power in France 19. France: The Holy Land, the Chosen People, and the Most Christian King 20. The Promise of the Fourteenth Century 21. The State and Religion: An Exploratory Comparison in Different Cultures 22. Empires¬タヤSome Reflections on Roman and Modern Imperialism 23. The First Western Union 24. The Historical Experience of Nation-Building in Europe 25. Problems of Dictatorship: The Russian Experience 26. Introduction to The Interpretation of History 27. United States History and World History 28. The Teaching of World Cultures: A Historian's Viewpoint 29. Graduate Training in the Humanities J. R. Strayer: A Chronological Bibliography Index