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The Reign of Richard Lionheart:Ruler of The Angevin Empire, 1189-1199 (The Medieval World)
by: Ralph V V. Turner (Author), Richard Heiser (Author)
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: 2000-07-25
Language: English
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0582256593
ISBN-13: 9780582256590
Book Description
This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship on his rival, Philip Augustus, permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented.
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This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship on his rival, Philip Augustus, permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented.
