Fulk Nerra, the neo-Roman consul, 987-1040 : a political biography of the Angevin count / Bernard S. Bachrach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bachrach, Bernard S., 1939-2023, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fulk III Nerra, Count of Anjou, approximately 970-1040.

Fulk.

Anjou, House of.

France--Civilization--Roman influences.

France.

France--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Anjou (France)--Biography.

Anjou (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 392 pages) illustrations, maps, geneal. tables.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive biography of Fulk Nerra, an important medieval ruler, who came to power in his teens and rose to be master in the west of the French Kingdom. Descendant of warriors and administrators who served the French kings, Fulk in turn built the state that provided a foundation for the vast Angevin empire later constructed by his descendants. Bernard Bachrach finds the terms "constructed" and "built" more than metaphorical in relation to Fulk's career. He shows how Fulk and the Angevin counts who followed him based their long-term state building policy on Roman strategies and fortifications described by Vegetius. This creative adaptation of Roman ideas and tactics, according to Bachrach, was the key to Fulk's successful consolidation of political power. Students of medieval and military history will find here a colorful, impressively researched biography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Family Background and Childhood

2. The Struggle f2o r Survival: 987-996

3. The First Capetian-Blésois Axis

4. Fulk Nerra's Rapprochement with King Robert II

5. The Second Capetian-Blésois Axis

6. Struggle for Mastery in the West: Part 1

7. Struggle for Mastery in the West: Part 2

8. Master in the West

9. The Angevin-Capetian Alliance

10. The Last Years

11. Summing Up 11

Genealogies

Fulk Nerra: Brief Chronology of Major Events

Notes

Bibliography

Personal Name Index

Place Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-373) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520913042

0520913043

9780585081281

058508128X

OCLC:

1163877882