Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the

A collection of essays that describe and assess the ways in which royal publicists in Medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with rega

Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants,

This collection is a notable example of how the cultural history of the middle ages can be written in terms that satisfy both the historian and the literary sch