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Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe

Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe

Dunbabin, Jean

Paperback

Series: Medieval World

Historical FiguresMedieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 0582253705
ISBN13: 9780582253704
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 22 1998
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
Charles I of Anjou (1225-85), brother of St Louis, was one of the most controversial figures of thirteenth-century Europe. A royal adventurer, who carved out a huge Mediterranean power block, as ruler of Provence, Jerusalem and the kingdom of Naples as well as Anjou, he changed for good the political configuration of the Mediterranean world - even though his ambitions were fatally undermined by the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers. Jean Dunbabin's study - the first in English for 40 years - reassesses Charles's extraordinary career, his pivotal role in the crusades and in military reform, trading, diplomacy, learning and the arts, and finds a more remarkable figure than the ruthless thug of conventional historiography.

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