The Plantagenet Empire 1154-1224: 1154-1224

ISBN-13: 9780582784390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 376 str.

Martin Aurell

Opis

France's premier medievalist offers students a broad study of a very popular medieval period characterised by Richard the Lionheart among others.

• Offers a far greater breadth than other books on this period, ranging right across the Plantagenet empire

• Opens up whole new areas of the Plantagenets such as propaganda, family relations and symbols

• Aurell's extraordinairy treatment of Beckett's murder and it's meaning for Englandand the empire offers a fascinating new approach

Spis treści

PART ONE: GOVERNMENT AND ROYAL WILL

The Royal Court: Civil Servants and their Skills

Plantagenet Ideology

PART TWO: FOR AND AGAINST THE KING

The Aristocracy: Between Rebellion and Submission

The Becket Affair

O autorze

Martin Aurell