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Oathbreakers : the war of brothers that shattered an empire and made Medieval Europe / Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063336674
  • ISBN: 0063336677
  • Physical Description: xiii, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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 CE -- Fathers and sons, 800-814 CE -- Sisters and nephews, 814-823 CE -- Act II: Family trouble. Sex, witchcraft, and angry nobles, 828-831 CE -- Deposed, 833-834 CE -- The king is dead, long live the kings, 835-840 CE -- Feints and provocations, June 840-June 841 CE -- Act III: Civil war. Fontenoy : Saturday June 25, 841 CE -- The earth recoils in horror, June 841 -- February 842 CE -- Oathmakers, February -- December 842 CE -- Grieving empire and grieving mothers, December 842- August 843 CE -- Epilogue : monument to the ghosts of empire, ca. 1860 CE -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Subject: Carolingians > History.
Lothair I, Emperor, 795-855.
Louis I, Emperor, 778-840.
Charles II, King of France, 823-877.
Emperors > Succession > France.
France > History > To 987.
Carolingiens > Histoire.
Empereurs > Succession > France.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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