Charles I of Anjou by Jean Dunbabin (.ePUB)+
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Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe by Jean Dunbabin (The Medieval World)
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Overview: 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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