Title:
Oathbreakers : the war of brothers that shattered an empire and made Medieval Europe / Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry.
ISBN:
9780063336674
9780063433755
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
Physical Description:
xiii, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Abbreviated timeline of events -- Cast of characters -- Prologue: A feast for vultures and wolves -- Introduction: Origin stories, 732-750 -- Act I: An empire of lies. Discontent and disinheritance, 750-792 -- Fathers and sons, 800-814 -- Sisters and nephews, 814-823 -- Act II: Family trouble. Sex, witchcraft, and angry nobles, 828-831 -- Deposed, 833-834 -- The king is dead, long live the kings, 835-840 -- Feints and provocations, June 840-June 841 -- Act III: Civil war. Fontenoy: Saturday June 25, 841 -- The earth recoils in horror, June 841-February 842 -- Oathmakers, February-December 842 -- Grieving empire and grieving mothers, December 842-August 843 -- Epilogue: monument to the ghosts of empire, circa. 1860 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"The story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and lay down the modern borders of Europe"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1455840645
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