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FRE CH MEDIEVAL ARMIES 1000-1300

DAVID NICOlLE ANGUS McBRIDE

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EDITOR: MARTIN WINDROW

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north rn pron ess c entually united in the onccpt of .. nightly hiv,t1ry, which became th aristocratic idealofth later Middle gcs.

Th rootS fFrench military might The late loth ccntur) S'l\\' the end of the great inva. ion of \ e. tern Europ b ikings, 1 lagyar and orth Friean usJims. ow hristendom tarted to expand. The ikings and Hungarian: II' re convert d, whil the u.lim were ~ reed back in man parts of the 1 diten-anean. BUl this did not bring p ac to France. B thc J I th century the king had I t 'ontrol of border regions, \ hile local warfare ha I gro\ n ;t1armingl ' frequcnt. In facl the energie. 3

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