Description: List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter I. The Governance of a Feudal State Feudal Policies 1. Permission to Clairvaux to acquire fiefs, ca. 1145 2. The count acquires a castle and grants fiefs for castleguard, 1200 3. The assignment of a new fief, 1201 4. Liege homage is imposed on a younger brother in 1201 5. Authorization to build a castle, 1206 6. An exemption to the castle policy, 1223 7. An allodial castle is feudalized, 1221 8. Confiscation of an unauthorized alienation, 1234 9. The repurchase of a fief, 1244 10. The great feudal inquest, 1249-1250 11. Unauthorized alienations to the church, 1250-1252 12. Restrictions on Templar acquisitions, 1191, 1255 13. Authorization to acquire feudal property, 1260 14. Royal taxation of alienated fiefs, 1291 15. Count Thibaut V taxes his feudal tenants, 1257

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