Count Hugh of Troyes and the Territorial Principality in Early Twelfth-Century Western Europe
Charles West
KNOWING the nation-state to be a modern invention, historians have in recent years increasingly turned away from grand ‘national narratives’ that used inform much research into European Middle Ages.1 One measure of this is attention lavished upon exchanges knowledge, ideas and practices across lines separation during period, frontiers frontier areas general.2 Another attempts made, working both individually collaboration, assess influence divergent national historiographical traditions exerted study particular historical topics.3 In similar vein, explicitly tested approaches forged one tradition against evidence usually assessed others.4 Yet there remain some topics investigation which still seems shaped, whether wittingly or not, by nationally oriented approaches. Among these subject with article principally concerned: territorial principality post-Carolingian Europe.
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