Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the crown, especially with regard to protecting and defending its Christian subjects from their alleged enemies at home and abroad.
'... this volume provides a valuable service in bringing together scattered articles by Jordan. A word of praise should further be voiced concerning the author's elegant and eminently readable prose style.' H-France '...[a] stimulating and important study of late Capetian kingship and its treatment of Jews.' French History
