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Anglo-Norman Political Culture and the Twelfth Century Renaissance
Author:  C. Warren Hollister
Published:  1997
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The twelfth-century renaissance, though usually seen as a French phenomenon, produced fundamental changes in the culture and politics of the wider Anglo-Norman world. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars in this field meeting at La Bretesche, Brittany, in 1995, explore the impact of this change.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15691-0

Price:  £50.00
Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610
Author:  Mary Ann Lyons
Published:  2003
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The period 1500 to 1610 witnessed a fundamental transformation in the nature of Franco-Irish relations. In 1500 contact was exclusively based on trade and small-scale migration. However, from the early 1520s to the early 1580s, the dynamics of 'normal' relations were significantly altered as unprecedented political contacts between Ireland and France were cultivated.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93266-5

Price:  £40.00
French Revolutionaries and English Republicans
Author:  Rachel Hammersley
Published:  2005
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Following the cataclysmic events of 1789 some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the United States of America.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93273-3

Price:  £40.00
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