398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
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At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
PART ONE: THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR: STEPHEN AS COUNT AND KING, 1113 - 1139 PART TWO: THE CIVIL WAR 1139 - 1147 PART THREE: SETTLING THE KINGDOM, 1147 - 1154 PART FOUR: THE IMPACT OF STEPHEN'S REIGN
Biography
David Crouch