Introduction: history, historians, and Seigneurial War; 1. War and peace in post-Albigensian Languedoc, 1250–70; 2. Philip the Fair's mission from God, 1270–1314; 3. The last Capetians and the Hundred Years War, 1315–50; 4. The changing experience of violence, 1350–64; 5. Violence and the state, 1365–1400; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.