Royal Taxation in Fourteenth-Century France: The Captivity and Ransom of John II, 1356-1370, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 116)

by John Bell Henneman

A history of the development of French royal finance in the 14th century. An earlier work studied the crown's finances between 1322 and 1356 when France was still in the "age of the war subsidy" and taxes were temporary wartime expedients. This book, a sequel to that study, shows how the capture of King John II in 1356 led to a critical change in the history of royal taxation. In the king's absence, the Estates General failed to secure adequate revenues,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871691167
• ISBN13: 9780871691163
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"