The Briennes - Couverture souple

Perry, Guy

 
9781316647516: The Briennes

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Guy Perry has held a wide range of positions as a Lecturer and a Tutor, from Royal Holloway, University of London, to the Universities of Oxford and Leeds. His previous publications include John of Brienne (Cambridge, 2013) and The Fifth Crusade in Context (2016).

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781107196902: The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950–1356

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1107196906 ISBN 13 :  9781107196902
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018
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