Canadian Journal of History, December 1st, 2000
Philip Augustus: King of France, 1180-1223, by Jim Bradbury. New York, Addison Wesley Longman, 1999. xxiv, 377 pp. $25.99 U.S. (cloth).
The special place that Philip Augustus holds in French history is due chiefly to his spectacular victory over France's mortal enemies at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, a triumph that secured the Capetian dynasty on the throne and laid the foundations of the modem French state. He consolidated his momentous achievements over a long reign of forty-three years. But he was hardly the stuff of heroic legend that French historians have frequently attempted to po...
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