In this episode, we discuss France from the election of Hugh Capet to the death of Phillip IV: The demise of the Carolingians, the foundation of the duchy of Normandy and eventual Norman conquest of England, the Cistercian and Cluniac orders, the gothic style, the Angevin-Capetian rivalry, the reigns of St. Louis IX and Phillip IV, the Avignon Papacy and the end of the Knights Templar.
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