num_pages: 384
description: At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
language: English
title: The Reign of King Stephen, 1135 - 1154
titlecomplete: The Reign of King Stephen, 1135 - 1154
characters: Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, Henry II of England, Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, William of Malmesbury, Waleran de Beaumont, Earl of Worcester, Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Henry of Blois, Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon, Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, Henry, Prince of Scots, Stephen, King of England, Louis VII of France, Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne, Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, William le Gros, Earl of York, Empress Matilda, David I, King of Scots, Theobald II, Count of Champagne, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Brian Fitz Count, Theobald of Bec
genres: Biography, Medieval History, Medieval, British Literature, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 38
publisher: Routledge