Louis IX
Saint Louis
By Jacques LeGoff (1924- )
Former Director of Studies at the L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Translated by Gareth Evan Gollrad
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009
ISBN 0268033811 / 9780268033811
Saint Louis by Jacques Legoff is the definitive study of Louis IX and running to nearly one thousand pages never likely to be surpassed in its depth - or weight. This book has had praise from all who have reviewed it but is now out of print and very expensive to obtain.
A cheaper alternative, although now quite old, is Saint Louis by Margaret Wade Labarge. It has never been reprinted but is not hard to obtain on the internet from used book vendors. Labarge specialised in thoroughly well researched history for a popular audience.
Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade is a revision of the author's thesis, Princeton, 1973, entitled: Saint Louis' influence on French Society and life in the thirteenth century.
*English version of Saint Louis : Crusader King of France is a an abridged version, although is still nearly 400 pages in length
Reign: 1226 - 1270
French appellation: Saint Louis
Concurrent English Monarch:
Henry III (1216 - 1272)
Saint Louis : The life of Louis IX of France
By Margaret Wade Labarge (1918-2009)
London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1968
Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade
By William Chester Jordan
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1979.
ISBN 9780691052854
Saint Louis : Crusader King of France. Cambridge / Jean Richard.
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Cambridge University Press ; originally Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1992.
edited and abridged by Simon Lloyd ; translated by Jean Birrell.
ISBN 9780521381567
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