Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).

Canadian Journal of History | December 1, 2001| | Copyright

Aristocratic life in Medieval France: the Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230, by John W. Baldwin. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvii, 359 pp. $52.95 U.S. (cloth).

John W. Baldwin's study of aristocratic life in medieval France during the reign of Philip II Augustus, his son Louis VIII, and the regency for Louis IX by Blanche of Castile explores its topic in a unique fashion. Instead of using charters, historical chronicles, and royal and aristocratic account books which are the usual fare for social history in ...

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