Fulk Nerra, The Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count.
Constance B. Bouchard|Bernard S. Bachrach
This is the first comprehensive biography of Fulk Nerra, an important medieval ruler, who came to power in his teens and rose be master west French Kingdom. Descendant warriors administrators served kings, turn state that provided a foundation for vast Angevin empire later by descendants. Bernard Bachrach finds terms constructed built more than metaphorical relation Fulk's career. He shows how counts followed him based their long-term building policy on Roman strategies fortifications described Vegetius. creative adaptation ideas tactics, according Bachrach, was key successful consolidation political power. Students military history will find here colorful, impressively researched biography.
The American Historical Review