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The book surveys early fourteenth-century France's transformation as royal authority centralizes and creates an insatiable fiscal apparatus, elevating money over land as the primary lever of power. It analyzes how precious metals, credit instruments, and bankers enter political life, reshaping institutions and provoking social strain and persecution of financial intermediaries. It considers the decline of knightly and ecclesiastical dominance, the rise of legal and parliamentary mechanisms, peasant unrest and bourgeois emergence, and episodes involving religious-military orders. Political, economic, and cultural threads are interwoven to show how fiscal demand and changing conceptions of wealth remade society and governance.
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