The Reign of Richard Lionheart: Ruler of The Angevin Empire, 1189-1199

by Ralph V Turner, Richard Heiser

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582256590
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/25/2000
Series:	The Medieval World
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ralph V. Turner, Richard R. Heiser

Table of Contents

Editors Preface.......................................................................................... Vll
Authors' Preface .......................................................................................... ix
List of Abbreviations ................................................................................... xi
The historians' balance-sheet ............................................................... 1
2 The character of the Angevin 'empire' ............................................. 17
3 The problem of Philip Augustus and growing French royal power .............................................................. 41
4 Richard's apprenticeship: count of Poitou 1172-89 ......................... 57
5 Richard's accession and preparations for the Third Crusade .......... 72
6 Richard's governance of England prior to departure on crusade
7 The government of England during the Third Crusade
and German captivity ...................................................................... 110
8 The government of England under Hubert Walter and
Geoffrey fitz Peter ............................................................................ 141
9 The duchy of Normandy ................................................................. 163
10 Greater Anjou .................................................................................. 181
11 The duchy of Aquitaine ................................................................... 200
12 Richard's warf are following the crusade, 1193-99
13 Richard in retrospect

Maps

Genealogical Table
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"significant and useful...important to anyone interested in King Richard, the history of the various territories under his control, or the study of medieval government" Albion "This book is both useful and important." H-net reviews

"a monograph that presents the Lionheart's reign in a much more complete way than any previous study...an exemplary study that places Richard more fimly in his European context than ever before." Speculm

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