Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. Among his books is Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter I. The Governance of a Feudal State Feudal Policies1. Permission to Clairvaux to acquire fiefs, ca. 11452. The count acquires a castle and grants fiefs for castleguard, 12003. The assignment of a new fief, 12014. Liege homage is imposed on a younger brother in 12015. Authorization to build a castle, 12066. An exemption to the castle policy, 12237. An allodial castle is feudalized, 12218. Confiscation of an unauthorized alienation, 12349. The repurchase of a fief, 124410. The great feudal inquest, 1249-125011. Unauthorized alienations to the church, 1250-125212. Restrictions on Templar acquisitions, 1191, 125513. Authorization to acquire feudal property, 126014. Royal taxation of alienated fiefs, 129115. Count Thibaut V taxes his feudal tenants, 1257