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Oathbreakers : the war of brothers that shattered an empire and made Medieval Europe
Gabriele, Matthew2024
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The story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and lay down the modern borders of Europe.
Main title:
Oathbreakers : the war of brothers that shattered an empire and made Medieval Europe / by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Harpe, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
xiii, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Discontent and disinheritance, 750-792 CEFathers and sons, 800-814 CESisters and nephews, 814-823 CESex, witchcraft, and angry nobles, 828-831 CEDeposed, 833-834 CEThe king is dead, long live the kings, 835-840 CEFeints and provocations, June 840 - June 841 CEFontenoy : Saturday June 25, 841 CEThe earth recoils in horror, June 841 - February 842 CEOathmakers, February - December 842 CEGrieving empire and grieving mothers, December 842- August 843 CEEpilogue : monument to the ghosts of empire, ca. 1860 CE.
ISBN:
9780063433755 (paperback)
Dewey class:
944.01
Language:
English
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BRN:
510639
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 944.01 OAT | Onloan - Due: 03 Feb 2025 |