Yvon Le Gall's collected studies on the concept and representation of kingship in France, from the Middle Ages until modern times, investigate key moments in the history of criminal justice, and in the ascent and ebbing away of the king's figure at the heart of sovereignty and public governance in French political history. The studies are based on a wide range of documents and works of art, linking central themes of legal and constitutional history to cultural history. Kingshippolitical theorygood governancelaw and literaturelegal-historical iconography-Hendrick Goltzius