The Reign of Richard Lionheart: Ruler of the Angevin Empire, 1189-1199

by Ralph V. Turner, Richard R. Heiser

This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship on his rival, Philip Augustus, permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented.

Genres: History, Medieval, France, Nonfiction, Medieval History, Historical

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

A specialist on the Angevin kings and their government, Ralph V. Turner is is Distinguished Research Professor of History (emeritus) at Florida State University. He earned a BA and an MA in history at the University of Arkansas, and after spending an academic year at Poitiers, France, as a Fulbright Scholar he attended the Johns Hopkins University, where he completed his doctorate in history in 1962.

Reviews

[Best British Biographies]

Despite having read over four dozen books so far for this project, Ralph Turner and Richard Heiser’s study of Richard I’s reign is the first co-authored work that I have encountered for it. Their collaboration reflects their shared expertise and personal ties. A specialist in the Angevin era and its administration in particular, Turner taught for several decades at Florida State University, where Heiser went for his graduate education in medieval history. Given the latter’s dissertation on lover government officials in Richard’s bureaucracy, the complimentary knowledge of the two made them an understandable fit for a study of Richard’s reign.

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