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Two Houses, Two Kingdoms : A History of France and England, 1100-1300 /
An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustration
- Acknowledgements
- Maps and tables
- Introduction
- Part I: Two houses collide
- 1. The new kings
- 2. Tragedy, crisis and murder
- 3. Two heirs and two heiresses
- 4. Brothers and sons
- 5. A queen of two realms
- 6. 'Magna discordia'
- Part II: The devil's brood
- 7. A king without a kingdom
- 8. 'The God-given'
- 9. Shame on a conquered king
- 10. Crusade
- 11. 'The devil is loose'
- 12. King Arthur?
- 13. The fall of Normandy
- Part III: The Capetian king of England
- 14. First steps
- 15. Bouvines
- 16. Invitation and invasion
- 17. 'Hell is made fouler'
- 18. A tale of two battles
- 19. Louis rex
- Part IV: Saints and sinners
- 20. Woe unto the land...
- 21. Four sisters
- 22. Captive kings
- 23. Brothers-in-law, brothers-in-arms
- 24. The end of two eras
- 25. The iron kings
- Epilogue: Happily ever after...
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index