Synopsis
"[The author] brings many new insights and much freshness to her theme." --English Historical Review
About the Author: Jean Dunbabin is at St Anne's College, Oxford.
Covering the centuries between the disintegration of the Carolingian empire and the rise of the French monarchy, this book traces the long period of gestation that ended with the emergence of the kingdom of France as a recognizable entity, both on the map of Europe and in the minds of its inhabitants.