Royal Taxation in Fourteenth-Century France: The Captivity and Ransom of John II, 1356-1370 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

With this volume, Professor John Henneman of the University of Iowa concludes a decade of research into the development of French royal finance in the fourteenth century. This book shows how the capture of King John II in 1356 led to a critical change in the history of royal taxation.