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  • - Peter of Dreux, Duke of Brittany
    by Sidney Painter
    £24.49

    Louis, the struggles between French kings and vassals, and the rivalry of the Capetian and Plantagenet monarchies.

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    by Sidney Painter
    £38.49

    His attempts to adjust a political system to cope with this threat and at the same time to assert the hegemony of the monarchy over its chief rivals-the barons and the church-made his reign one of particular importance and significance in English history.

  • - Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France
    by Sidney Painter
    £24.49

    The first chapter provides readers unfamiliar with medieval history the background required for understanding the chapters on chivalry.

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    - Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England
    by Sidney Painter
    £34.99

    Finally in 1216 he was chosen regent of England for the young king, Henry III, and his biography becomes for three years the history of England.

  • by Sidney Painter
    £24.49

    His book challenges the traditional view of the Hundred Years' War as pivotal to the transition from twelfth-century lords and vassals to the nobility of the fifteenth century; from Painter's perspective, the feudal structure of the military had dissipated by the thirteenth century.

  • by Sidney Painter
    £11.49

    An introduction to the understanding of everyday life in the early Middle Ages. The social history of this period has been studied intensively for years, but few brief, concrete, and comprehensive accounts of daily life in medieval Europe have...

  • - Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France
    by Sidney Painter
    £20.99

    The author describes the various ideas that may be called chivalric, illustrates their nature and content from contemporary literature, and attempts to show what effect they had on the ethical principles and practices of the feudal...

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