Disunited kingdoms
Sep 01, 2022
2 minutes
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100-1300
by Catherine Hanley
Yale University Press, 480 pages, £25
In the High Middle Ages – as, indeed, for much of history – political power was personal. It may be an oversimplification to view a monarch by his famed temperament – to see Richard I “the Lionheart” of England
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