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Front Cover
Front matter
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Body
Introduction
Purpose and Range of This Book
Historiography
Chapter 1. Technology and Warfare
Preliminary Remarks
Cavalry
Infantry
Castles and Sieges
Military Organization and Tactics
Chapter 2. The Emergence of France
The "Frankish" Roots of Kingship
The Parting of the Ways
Rival Royal Houses
Summary
Chapter 3. French Monarchical Power in Context
The "Princes"
A Feudal Revolution?

Princes, Kings, and Military Power
Castles
Chapter 4. Warfare in France to 1066
The Siege of Paris
Two Threads of Warfare
The Ascent of the Capetians
A New Dynasty, a New Start?
Chapter 5. A Clash of Dynasties 1066-1180
The French Monarchy and the Anglo-Norman State
Louis the Fat
France and Crusading
Battle of Brémule
The Murder of Charles the Good of Flanders
The Second Crusade
Louis VII and the Angevin "Empire"
Louis and the Great Revolt
Chapter 6. Philip II and the Rise of France
The Early Reign
The Third Crusade

The War with Richard Lionheart
The Seizure of Normandy
King John's War of Recovery
The Campaign of Bouvines
The Battle of Bouvines
Chapter 7. The Expansion of France
The Invasion of England
The Battle of Lincoln
Battle at Sea: Sandwich and the Endgame
The South and the French Monarchy
The Albigensian Crusade
Battle of Muret
Louis VIII Intervenes
Chapter 8. Louis IX and the Apogee of French Power
The Early Reign
The Angevin Problem
The Crusades of Louis IX
The Fourth Crusade and the Context of Enthusiasm
Louis IX's Crusade to Egypt

Battle at Mansourah
Defeat
France and Europe
Sicily: the French Intervention
Battle of Benevento
The Battle of Tagliacozzo
Charles of Anjou and the Mediterranean World
Louis IX and the Crusade to Tunis
Chapter 9. The Problems of Power
The War of the Vespers
The Development of the French Army
France and the War of the Vespers
Naval Warfare
One Problem Leads to Another
The Flemish Revolt
The Battle of Courtrai
The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle
Chapter 10. Perspectives on the Army of the Kings of France
The Influence of the Crusades?
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