The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356

The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern France, but whose reach and impact extended across Europe and into the Crusader States in the Middle East. It is a highly dramatic and wide-ranging story of medieval mobility, not only up and down the social ladder, but in geographical terms as well. Although the Briennes were one of the great dynasties of the central Middle Ages, this book represents the first comprehensive history of the family. Taking the form of parallel biographies and arranged broadly chronologically, it explores not only their rise, glory and fall, but also how they helped to shape the very nature of the emerging European state system. This book will appeal to students and scholars of medieval France, the Mediterranean world, the Crusades and the central Middle Ages.

Author: Guy Perry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/27/2018
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.46w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781107196902

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2019

About the Author
Perry, Guy: - Guy Perry has held a wide range of positions as a Lecturer and a Tutor, from Royal Holloway, University of London, to the Universities of Oxford and Leeds. His previous publications include John of Brienne (Cambridge, 2013) and The Fifth Crusade in Context (2016).