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  • The Language of Sex

    Five Voices from Northern France around 1200

    This study brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion a comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world.John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the Prose Salernitan Questions, for the medical ... Leer más

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  • Knights, Lords, and Ladies

    In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 118-122

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    At the beginning of the twelfth century, the region around Paris had a reputation for being the land of unruly aristocrats. Entrenched within their castles, the nobles were viewed as quarrelling among themselves, terrorizing the countryside, harassing churchmen and peasants, pillaging, and committing unspeakable atrocities. By the end of the century, during the reign of Philip Augustus, the ... Leer más

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  • Knights, Lords, and Ladies

    In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 118-122

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    At the beginning of the twelfth century, the region around Paris had a reputation for being the land of unruly aristocrats. Entrenched within their castles, the nobles were viewed as quarrelling among themselves, terrorizing the countryside, harassing churchmen and peasants, pillaging, and committing unspeakable atrocities. By the end of the century, during the reign of Philip Augustus, the ... Leer más

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    Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition

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  • A Most Holy War

    The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

    Series series Pivotal Moments in World History
    In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now known as Languedoc--in a great crusade. This most holy war, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other ... Leer más

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  • Éminence

    Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France

    Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians, practicing in the wake of Niccolò Machiavelli. Truly larger than life, he has captured the ... Leer más

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  • La Duchesse

    The Life of Marie de Vignerot—Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France

    A rich portrait of a compelling, complex woman who emerged from a sheltered rural childhood into the fraught, often deadly world of the French royal court and Parisian high society—and who would come to rule them both.Married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew, Marie de Vignerot was intended to lead an ordinary aristocratic life, produce heirs, and quietly assist the men in her ... Leer más

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  • The Secret History of Freemasonry

    Its Origins and Connection to the Knights Templar

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  • Medieval France

    From the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

    Masson's Medieval France is a concise history of France from the end of the 10th, to the beginning of the 16th centuries. This edition includes an active table of contents. ... Leer más

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  • Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion

    de André Thevet ...
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    Series series Early Modern Studies
    Available for the first time in English, these thirteen selections from André Thevet’s Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres offer a glimpse of France during a time of great upheaval. Originally published in 1584, Thevet’s collection contains over two hundred biographical sketches, detailing the lives of important persons from antiquity to the sixteenth century. Edward Benson and Roger ... Leer más

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  • Montaigne

    A Life

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    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... Leer más

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  • The Sanctity of Louis IX

    Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres

    Louis IX of France reigned as king from 1226 to 1270 and was widely considered an exemplary Christian ruler, renowned for his piety, justice, and charity toward the poor. After his death on crusade, he was proclaimed a saint in 1297, and today Saint Louis is regarded as one of the central figures of early French history and the High Middle Ages. In The Sanctity of Louis IX, Larry F. Field offers ... Leer más

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