Paris, 1200

Paris in 1200 was a city in transition. The great cathedral of Notre-Dame was partway through its construction, and walls were being were being built to enclose the new, larger limits of the city. Pope Innocent III ordered all French churches closed to punish King Philip Augustus for his remarriage; the king himself negotiated an unprecedented treaty with the English; and the students of Paris threatened a general strike, punctuated with incidents of violence, to protest infringements of th...