Louis VII and His World

Acknowledgements vii
List of Contributors viii
Chart ix
List of Abbreviations x
Introduction: Monarch and Monde / Michael L. Bardot and Laurence W. Marvin 1
Part 1. Louis as Leader
1. The War Councils and Military Advisers of Louis VII of France / John D. Hosler 11
2. King Louis VII as General on the Second Crusade: A Failure of Command, Control and Communication / Laurence W. Marvin 29
3. Changes in Capetian Grain Management: Strategies of the Twelfth Century / Michael L. Bardot 50
4. All Citizens High and Low: Louis VII and the Towns / Steven Isaac 62
5. La Paix du Roi et ses Acteurs au Temps de Louis VII: L’exemple de l’Auvergne et du Velay / Yves Sassier 86
Part 2. The Twelfth-Century Capetian World
6. The Missing Queen? Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Early Reign of Louis VII / Michael R. Evans 105
7. The Historical Afterlife of Two Capetian Co-Kings Who Predeceased Their Fathers / William Chester Jordan 114
8. The Regular Canons of Saint- Victor in the World of Louis VII / Marshall E. Crossnoe 126
9. Revealing the Extraordinary: The Lives of Unremarkable Men in the Age of Louis VII / Amy Livingstone 146
Bibliography 167
Index 183