This collection originates in a conference held at Princeton in 2014 to mark two anniversaries in French history: the famous Battle of Bouvines and the death, a century later, of King Philip IV. As William Chester Jordan explains, the intention of the volume’s four sections is ‘fleshing out’ the existing narrative alongside further ‘interrogation’ of what has been labelled by some the âge d’or capétien (pp. xi–xii).