Peter Des Roches: An Alien in English Politics, 1205-1238 - Brossura

Vincent, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 0521522153 ISBN 13: 9780521522151

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Riassunto

This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens are fundamental to an understanding of the process by which England and France developed as two separate kingdoms. As a politician, des Roches cast a shadow across the reigns of both John and Henry III. His biography encompasses the first detailed narrative yet attempted of English political history in the early 1230s and of the civil war of 1233–4. It sheds new light on such issues as the role of aliens in English politics, the reception of Magna Carta, the loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III.

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' ... brilliant study ... Vincent has hunted down the widest possible range of sources, printed and unprinted, English and French, and has exploited them cleverly.' John Gillingham, The Times Literary Supplement

Descrizione del libro:

This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe. It sheds new light on on the role of aliens in English politics, Magna Carta, the loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521522153
• ISBN 13: 9780521522151
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 566