
Author/Contributor(s): | Bachrach, Bernard S |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Date: | 10/01/1993 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Condition: | NEW |
Bernard Bachrach finds the terms constructed and built more than metaphorical in relation to Fulk's career. He shows how Fulk and the Angevin counts who followed him based their long-term state building policy on Roman strategies and fortifications described by Vegetius. This creative adaptation of Roman ideas and tactics, according to Bachrach, was the key to Fulk's successful consolidation of political power. Students of medieval and military history will find here a colorful, impressively researched biography.