Henry I /
This work provides a biography of Henry I, who ruled from 1100 to 1135. It offers a reassessment of Henry's character and reign, challenging the dated portrait of the king as brutal, greedy and repressive, arguing that his rule was based on order.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Yale English monarchs.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Foreword by Jeffrey Burton Russell
- Editor's preface
- Note on abbreviations and references
- Map: the Norman Empire
- The Anglo-Norman family
- Setting and sources
- Childhood and youth
- Kingship and defense
- The loss of investiture and the winning of Normandy
- Administrative reforms and international triumphs
- The wheel of fortune
- The last battles
- King and Magnates
- Law and governance
- King and Church
- Final years and conclusion
- Appendix: Charter attestations and the royal entourage
- Bibliography
- Index.