Decline of Kingship
Ascendancy of the Church
Hugh Capet
"Truce of God"
William the Conqueror


CHAPTER VII.

Social Structure of France
Free Cities
Their Creation and Enfranchisement
The Crusades
Philip Augustus
War with King John of England
Toulouse and the Albigensian War


CHAPTER VIII.

Abelard
Louis IX.
End of Crusades
Philip III.
Philip IV. and Papacy
Creation of States-General
Popes at Avignon
Knights Templar Exterminated
Change in Succession