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Title:

PHILIP AUGUSTUS
KING OF FRANCE 1180-1223

By:

Jim Bradbury

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0582060591

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9780582060593

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

11 November, 1997

Series:

The Medieval World

Pages:

400

Description:

This text sets out to do justice to Philip (II) Augustus as a man and a king and to redress the balance of assessment in relation to his contemporaries.

Synopsis:

This is the first major study in English of the reign of Philip Augustus who ruled France from 1180 - 1223. Outshone for posterity, by his flamboyant contemporaries, the Angevin family of Henry II and his feuding sons, Philip was in fact far more successful than any of them, astutely playing them off against each other and recovering for the French crown their vast estates in Northern France including Normandy itself. As well as reasserting the power of the Capetian monarchy, he was also leader of the Third Crusade. Drawing together all the threads in the life of one of France's most forceful rulers, this new study offers a study of the nature of monarchy in late medieval Europe as well as an insight into a subtle and secretive personality.

Illustrations:

black & white illustrations

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Imprint:

Longman

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