Angevin Empire Dbq
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The Angevin Empire
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*Source: www.newworldencyclopedia.org // eulogos.blogspot.com
1. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE 3 SELECTED ARTICLES
A) Hollister, C. Warren , Keefe, Thomas K., 1973 “ THE MAKING OF THE ANGEVIN EMPIRE” Journal of British Studies .Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1973), pp. 1-25 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The North American Conference on British Studies
This article is an exhaustive and full-detailed analysis made by professors Warren Hollister and Thomas Keefe in the year 1973, based on the question of how Angevin empire was formed and which were its primarily roots. It mainly focuses during the reign of Henry I, king of England and Normandy who set the ideological and political basis of the subsequent Angevin Empire ruled by Henry II. Another key fact to understand the birth of the Angevin Empire was the union of its two chief components, the Anglo-Norman state and the county of Anjou. Hollister and Keefe make their analysis by asking themselves the following questions: “Did the empire come about by accident or by political design? And if by design, who was …show more content…
[…] “The Angevin idea of empire was a broadly conceived, flexible, and multifaceted network of family connections. The composition of the Angevin Empire was not fixed and no effort was made to create a permanent structure. The Angevin counts seemed to appreciate that the failure to produce heirs, the development of personality conflicts, the intervention of premature death, and numerous other unforeseen problems were far too likely to undermine any but the most rudimentary and flexible pattern of organization.”
The Angevin Empire
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*Source: www.newworldencyclopedia.org // eulogos.blogspot.com
1. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE 3 SELECTED ARTICLES
A) Hollister, C. Warren , Keefe, Thomas K., 1973 “ THE MAKING OF THE ANGEVIN EMPIRE” Journal of British Studies .Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1973), pp. 1-25 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The North American Conference on British Studies
This article is an exhaustive and full-detailed analysis made by professors Warren Hollister and Thomas Keefe in the year 1973, based on the question of how Angevin empire was formed and which were its primarily roots. It mainly focuses during the reign of Henry I, king of England and Normandy who set the ideological and political basis of the subsequent Angevin Empire ruled by Henry II. Another key fact to understand the birth of the Angevin Empire was the union of its two chief components, the Anglo-Norman state and the county of Anjou. Hollister and Keefe make their analysis by asking themselves the following questions: “Did the empire come about by accident or by political design? And if by design, who was …show more content…
[…] “The Angevin idea of empire was a broadly conceived, flexible, and multifaceted network of family connections. The composition of the Angevin Empire was not fixed and no effort was made to create a permanent structure. The Angevin counts seemed to appreciate that the failure to produce heirs, the development of personality conflicts, the intervention of premature death, and numerous other unforeseen problems were far too likely to undermine any but the most rudimentary and flexible pattern of organization.”