Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

• Contents: Introduction; Representation and agency law in the later Middle Ages: the theoretical foundations and the evolution of practice in the 13th- and 14th-century Midi; Cessante Causa and the taxes of the last Capetians: the political applications of a philosophical maxim; Taxation and Royal commissioners and grants of privilege in Philip the Fair’s France: Pierre de Latilli, Raoul de Breuilli, and the ordonnance for the Seneschalsy of Toulouse and Albi of 1299; Reform and resistance to royal authority in 14th-century France: the leagues of 1314-1315; Assemblies of French towns in 1316: some new texts; Royal necessity and noble service and subsidy in early 14th-century France: the assembly of Bourges of November 1318; Subsidy and reform in 1321: the accounts of Najac and the policies of Philip V; Customary aids and royal fiscal policy under Philip VI of Valois; Index.