Bloomsbury Academic Medieval France and her Pyrenean Neighbours: Studies in Early Institutional History: 70 (Studies presented to the International Commission for the ... Representative & Parliamentary Institutions)

This collection of essays makes an important contribution to our knowledge of feudalism and finance in France and Spain. Divided into four sections, it covers the use rulers made of courts, parlements, and assemblies for ceremonial, political and fiscal purposes; the institutional formation of Catalonia; comparative studies of France, Catalonia and Aragon in the twelfth century; and monetary and fiscal policies of contemporary rulers.