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The Good King

René of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe

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  1. Margaret L. Kekewich
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Kings

    • Margaret L. Kekewich
    Pages 1-10

  3. Anjou, Bar, Lorraine and Provence

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    Pages 11-44

  4. Naples: the ‘Italian Wasp-Nest’

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    Pages 45-79

  5. The End of the Hundred Years War

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    Pages 80-133

  6. René’s Court

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    Pages 134-197

  7. The Dissolution of René’s apanage

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    Pages 198-246

  8. Conclusion: the Paradox of the Good King

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    Pages 247-254

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 255-284
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King René is little known beyond France, yet, through his controversial daughter Margaret of Anjou, he affected events in England during the Wars of the Roses. René's court rivalled Burgundy in its rich artistic culture and his claim to the kingdom of Naples started a process that led to enormous changes in the power structure of Southern Europe.

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'This review can only give the barest outline of the endlessly intricate material, political and artistic, that Kekewich's book addresses.' - Livia Visser-Fuchs, The Ricardian

About the author

MARGARET KEKEWICH  taught History in schools, adult education and, until retirement, the Open University where she was a Senior Lecturer in Arts. She has published books and articles on advisers to princes such as Sir John Fortescue and Niccolò Macchiavelli, on the Lancastrian court in exile, and, with Susan Rose, on Britain, France and the Empire, 1350-1500.

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