Dynasty-Specific Studies

Merovingian Period

Bachrach, Bernard S. Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972.

Geary, Patrick J. Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Wood, Ian. The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751. London: Longman, 1994.

Carolingian Era

Ganshof, F.L. The Carolingians and the Frankish Monarchy. London: Longman, 1971.

McKitterick, Rosamond. Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Nelson, Janet L. Charles the Bald. London: Longman, 1992.

Capetian Dynasty

Baldwin, John W. The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Bradbury, Jim. Philip Augustus: King of France 1180-1223. London: Longman, 1998.

Fawtier, Robert. The Capetian Kings of France: Monarchy and Nation, 987-1328. London: Macmillan, 1960.

Jordan, William Chester. Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Valois Dynasty

Autrand, Françoise. Charles V le Sage. Paris: Fayard, 1994.

Knecht, R.J. Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Potter, David. A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. London: Macmillan, 1995.

Vale, Malcolm. Charles VII. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Bourbon Dynasty

Bergin, Joseph. The Rise of Richelieu. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Bluche, François. Louis XIV. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Treasure, Geoffrey. Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France. London: Routledge, 1995.

Wolfe, Michael. The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.