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1 - The government of later medieval France and England: a plea for comparative history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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Jean-Philippe Genet
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Christopher Fletcher ,
Jean-Philippe Genet  and
John Watts
Christopher Fletcher
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Université de Paris I
Jean-Philippe Genet
Affiliation:
Université de Paris I
John Watts
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University of Oxford
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Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500 , pp. 1 - 23
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