This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d'

This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d�

Historians in France assume that the restoration of Monarchy after the defeat of Napoleon was doomed. The first compact recent history of the period in English,

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.

Since the end of the Cold War, the Middle Ages has returned to debates about history, culture, and politics in Northern and Eastern Europe. This volume explores