TY - BOOK ID - 33198461 TI - The Briennes : the rise and fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the age of the crusades, c. 950-1356 PY - 2018 SN - 9781107196902 9781108164979 9781316647516 1107196906 131664751X 1108164978 1108195369 1108186955 PB - [Cambridge, United Kingdom] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nobility KW - Brienne, Counts of. KW - Champagne, Counts of. KW - France KW - History KW - History. KW - Brienne, House of. KW - Croisades KW - Brienne (maison de). KW - Champagne (France) KW - Noblesse KW - Crusades. KW - Champagne-Ardenne (France) KW - Brienne UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33198461 AB - "The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern France, but whose reach and impact extended across Europe and into the Crusader States in the Middle East. It is a highly dramatic and wide-ranging story of medieval mobility, not only up and down the social ladder, but in geographical terms as well. Although the Briennes were one of the great dynasties of the central Middle Ages, this book represents the first comprehensive history of the family. Taking the form of parallel biographies and arranged broadly chronologically, it explores not only their rise, glory and fall, but also how they helped to shape the very nature of the emerging European state system. This book will appeal to students and scholars of medieval France, the Mediterranean world, the Crusades and the central Middle Ages" [Publisher] ER -