The Loss of Normandy (1189-1204): Studies in the History of the Angevin EmpireUniversity Press, 1913 - 603 pages |
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... forces . Moreover , Normandy was opposed by a State of very similar nature and capacity , controlled by a king who is possibly the best example of self - conscious feudalism . At the end of the twelfth century there was in most states ...
... forces . Moreover , Normandy was opposed by a State of very similar nature and capacity , controlled by a king who is possibly the best example of self - conscious feudalism . At the end of the twelfth century there was in most states ...
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... force a way into Aquitaine by way of Bourges , but their progress was slow and uncertain . Even when Philip Augustus had succeeded , after his father and he had made several compromises with Henry II and his two successors , in allying ...
... force a way into Aquitaine by way of Bourges , but their progress was slow and uncertain . Even when Philip Augustus had succeeded , after his father and he had made several compromises with Henry II and his two successors , in allying ...
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... forces . 2 This process was fraught with much danger to the political stability of the empire . One natural consequence of it was that vassals who felt that their privileges were invaded were encouraged to appeal from their lord to the ...
... forces . 2 This process was fraught with much danger to the political stability of the empire . One natural consequence of it was that vassals who felt that their privileges were invaded were encouraged to appeal from their lord to the ...
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... force as Paris or Tours.1 But , by its situation , Bordeaux , with its ring of towns stretching as far as Saint - Macaire and Castillon , was the natural base of a foreign domination . For three centuries , as the link between Gascony ...
... force as Paris or Tours.1 But , by its situation , Bordeaux , with its ring of towns stretching as far as Saint - Macaire and Castillon , was the natural base of a foreign domination . For three centuries , as the link between Gascony ...
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... force in the Côtentin . Note also the local additions in the Vatican MS . of the earliest custumal ( Ibid , p . 56 ) . The fact that fouage or focagium , a tax on the hearth to compensate for the depreciation of the unchanged coinage ...
... force in the Côtentin . Note also the local additions in the Vatican MS . of the earliest custumal ( Ibid , p . 56 ) . The fact that fouage or focagium , a tax on the hearth to compensate for the depreciation of the unchanged coinage ...
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