France in the Middle Ages 987-1460

France in the Middle Ages 987-1460
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 0631189459
ISBN-13 : 9780631189459
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Download or read book France in the Middle Ages 987-1460 written by Georges Duby and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993-12-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, now available in paperback, he examines the history of France from the rise of the Capetians in the mid-tenth century to the execution of Joan of Arc in the mid-fifteenth. He takes the evolution of power and the emergence of the French state as his central themes, and guides the reader through complex - and, in many respects, still unfamiliar, yet fascinating terrain. He describes the growth of the castle and the village, the building blocks of the new Western European civilization of the second millenium AD.


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