France in the Middle Ages 987-1460
Subtitle: from Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc
By: Georges Duby ; translated by Juliet Vale.
Series: A History of France
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Hugh Capet, King of France, ca. 938-996.; Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431.; France -- Civilization.; France -- History -- Medieval period, 987-1515.; France -- Church history -- 987-1515.
Description: Duby examines the history of France from the rise of the Capetians in the mid-tenth century to the execution of Joan of Arc in the mid-fifteenth. He takes the evolution of power and the emergence of the French state as his central themes, and guides the reader through complex - and, in many respects, still unfamiliar, yet fascinating terrain. He describes the growth of the castle and the village, the building blocks of the new Western European civilization of the second millennium AD.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-313) and index.
Translation of: Le Moyen Age 987-1460.