Professor Robert Bartlett: The story of England's longest reigning dynasty begins here in Anjou, Western France. In 1128 an enraged princess arrived here. Her name was Matilda and she was the only ...

Professor Robert Bartlett: King Richard the Lionheart had survived 10 violent years on the throne…but his luck ran out in France in the spring of 1199. While laying siege to the castle of a ...

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