UID:
almahu_9947981957902882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781108164979 (ebook)
Content:
The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern France, but whose reach and impact extended across Europe and into the Crusader States in the Middle East. It is a highly dramatic and wide-ranging story of medieval mobility, not only up and down the social ladder, but in geographical terms as well. Although the Briennes were one of the great dynasties of the central Middle Ages, this book represents the first comprehensive history of the family. Taking the form of parallel biographies and arranged broadly chronologically, it explores not only their rise, glory and fall, but also how they helped to shape the very nature of the emerging European state system. This book will appeal to students and scholars of medieval France, the Mediterranean world, the Crusades and the central Middle Ages.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2018).
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Between Bar-sur-Aube and Rosnay' (c.950-1191); 2. Breakthrough and high point (c.1191-1237); 3. In the pages of Joinville (c.1237-1267); 4. The Angevins and Athens (c.1267-1311); 5. Hubris and nemesis (c.1311-1356); Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107196902
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164979
