The Counts of Anjou in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Understanding Power and Authority in the High Middle Ages
Elizabeth Dachowski
Abstract The county of Anjou has a central place in French and English historiography as one the main territorial principalities that emerged tenth eleventh centuries. power authority Angevin counts centuries make to debates over public private – violence, coercion, cooperation continuity or discontinuity Carolingian institutions early Capetian era. Its rich primary source record allowed numerous studies address these questions, but more work needs be done making use methodology emerging fields within medieval with focus on how lesser nobility functioned Anjou.
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