France in the Making 843-1180, 2nd Edition
$159.39
- Paperback
476 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2000
Summary
Covering the centuries between the disintegration of the Carolingian empire and the rise of the French monarchy, this book traces the long period of gestation that ended with the emergence of the kingdom of France as a recognizable political entity capable of inspiring the loyalty of its peoples. The author describes the emergence in the late ninth and tenth centuries of principalities and lesser political units in which the personal qualitiesor resources of the rulers permitted them to comma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198208464 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198208464 |
| Author: | Jean Dunbabin |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 476 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2000 |
| Weight: | 570g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 139mm x 25mm |
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Anyone interested in medieval history ought to find things to excite them in this book; anyone involved in teaching medieval French history will find it a tremendous boon. * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Jean Dunbabin
Jean Dunbabin is a Senior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her previous publications include Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe (1998) and Captivity and Imprisonment in Western Europe, 1000 1300 (2002).
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