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Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, ca. 1025-1098. (Reviews of Books).

Albion,  March, 2002  by White, Stephen D.

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W. Scott Jessee. Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, ca. 1025-1098. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 206. $54.95. ISBN 0-8132-0973-0.

In this well-argued study of late eleventh-century Angevin politics, W. Scott Jessee challenges the traditional view that after the death of count Geoffrey Martel (1040-60), the county of Anjou and the neighboring territories previously ruled by Geoffrey and count Fulk Nerra (987-1040) experienced a prolonged period of "feudal anarchy" that lasted until the accession of count Geoffrey ...

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