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The “Angevin Empire” (1150—1204): A Twelfth-Century Union

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This article examines the origins of the term "Angevin Empire". It shows that the invention of the Angevin Empire occurred in the nineteenth century and that far from describing a twelfth-century polity, the coiners of the term meant us to understand the Angevin Empire as a proto British Empire. The article further argues that we should see the polities that the Angevins brought together as a "union", examples of which are common in the middle ages, one which recognised the independent identities of each of its constiutent parts.

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Publication Title

Unions and Divisions New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (ed. by Paul Srodecki, Norbert Kersken, Rimvydas Petrauskas)

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68-82

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Routledge

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9781032057521

Date Submitted

2021-07-01

Date Accepted

2021-10-12

Date of First Publication

2022-11-25

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2024-10-01

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Unions and Divisions New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (ed. by Paul Srodecki, Norbert Kersken, Rimvydas Petrauskas) on November 25, 2022, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781032057521 It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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