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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 December 2009
      05 October 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511496486
      9780521660716
      9780521026925
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496486
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 264 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.405kg, 264 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (48)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (48)
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    The rule of the Angevins in Brittany is characterized usually as opening an isolated 'Celtic' society to a wider world and imposing new and alien institutions. This study of Brittany under the Angevins, first published in 2000, demonstrates that the opposite is true: that before the advent of Henry II in 1158, the Bretons were already active participants in Anglo-Norman and French society. Indeed those Bretons with landholdings in England, Normandy and Anjou were already accustomed to Angevin rule. The book examines in detail the means by which Henry II gained sovereignty over Brittany and how it was governed subsequently by the Angevin kings of England from 1158 to 1203. In particular, it examines the extent to which the Angevins ruled Brittany directly, or delegated authority either to native dukes or royal ministers and shows that in this respect the nature of Angevin rule changed and evolved over the period.

    Reviews

    ‘… this is an excellent monograph that displays considerable insight, scholarship and originality and makes an important contribution to English and French history.’

    Source: History

    ‘With carefully assembled knowledge of a huge cast, she traces in remorseless but clear detail the familial and material motives behind the apparently purposeless wars, rebellions, and shifts of alliance which fill the chronicles of the period, and arrives at many convincing insights.’

    Source: Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies

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