The kingdom of the Franks to 1108
Constance B. Bouchard
The foundations of most the aspects high medieval culture in France, which came to fruition twelfth century, were laid firmly during more fluid era eleventh long reigns Henry and Philip. Henry's Philip's reigns, like those Hugh Capet Robert II before them, many ways an institutional continuation royal rule Carolingians, but marked by evolution as well continuity. eleventh-century Capetians could count on fidelity only a handful territorial princes, not even all them consistently. princes far south-west kingdom especially from authority. century France was turning-point, when fundamental changes took place social economic structures, power structures religious intellectual life.
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