Olivier de Clisson and political society in France under Charles V and Charles VI / John Bell Henneman
1996, 1st edition. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426412
ISBN: 0812233530
Physical description; xiv, 341 pages : illustrations, maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-327) and index. Contents; 1. Northwestern France in the Fourteenth Century: Crisis and Realignment -- 2. The Breton Nobility and the Succession Crisis -- 3. Clisson's Reconciliation with the Crown -- 4. Clisson in the Service of Charles V -- 5. Political Society at Court: Emergence of the Marmousets -- 6. Clisson and the Royal Failure in Brittany -- 7. Royal Minority: The Uncles and the Marmousets -- 8. The Crisis of 1387 and the Triumph of the Marmousets -- 9. The Frustrations of the Marmousets -- 10. Clisson at Bay: War in Brittany and in the Courts -- 11. From Marmousets to Orleanists -- 12. Clisson's Final Years: The Legacy of a Long Feud -- Appendix 1. The Leaders of French Military Society -- Appendix 2. Genealogy and Wealth of the Clisson Family. Subjects; Clisson, Olivier de 1336-1407. Clisson, Oliver de. 1328-1589. Nobility France Brittany ; Biography. Soldiers France ; Biography. Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 ; Biography. Social history Medieval, 500-1500. Military biography France. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical. HISTORY Europe France. HISTORY Medieval. International relations. Nobility. Politics and government. Soldiers.
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