One of the books you want for such a course has unfortunately not yet been published. Bill Clark is still researching his Capetian Kings in Merovingian Paris: Continuity and Contextuality in Early Gothic Architecture. However, in the meantime, see inter alia, William W. Clark, " 'The Recollection of the Past Is the Promise of the Future.' Continuity and Contextuality: Saint-Denis, Merovingians, Capetians, and Paris," in Virginia Raguin et al., eds, Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings (Toronto, 1995), pp. 92-113, with much useful bibliography. Jim Bugslag %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%