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Cargando... The Plantagenets : the warrior kings and queens who made England (2012 original; edición 2012)por Dan Jones
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In my opinion this is the best single volume history of the period between the Normans and the Wars of the Roses. Very interesting period of English history. ( ) "The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England" by Dan Jones is thorough. A prior knowledge of geography and European history is helpful because this book has a narrow beam focused on the monarchy. The epilogue was superb and will help me keep the era of the Plantagenets in my memory. A thick book with short, easy-to-read chapters, covering 245 years of Plantagenet history as kings of England and some chapters setting the scene before that. Even in this thickness, there was a sense there was a lot more to cover, but as a brief introduction from the start to the end this worked very well. This is a sweeping history of the kings who ruled England and initially Normandy, but also varying other areas of what is now France from about 1120 to 1400. It is easily readable narrative written about the kings personally and to a lesser extent the development of state power. I have read a number of books covering various aspects of this period over the years, including the even more sweeping Foundation by Peter Ackroyd (English history through to Henry VII) and the excellent, but detailed, Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint. This book is a very readable history, but because of the long time period covered, it is necessarily brief at times, leaving me wanting to read more details about various periods (and the book does provide a bibliography to direct reading). However, some periods (Henry III’s 56 year reign) did feel as if they were rushed, and the turn of the wheel of fortune was sometimes stated, but not fully explained.
"Fast-paced and accessible, "The Plantagenets" is old-fashioned storytelling and will be particularly appreciated by those who like their history red in tooth and claw." "Blood-soaked medieval England springs to vivid life in Jones’s (Summer of Blood) highly readable, authoritative, and assertive history—already a #1 bestseller in the U.K." "Jones, a protege of David Starkey, writes with his mentor's erudition but also exhibits novelistic verve and sympathy." "Jones has written a magnificently rich and glittering medieval pageant, guiding us into the distant world of the Plantagenets with familiar confidence." PremiosListas de sobresalientes
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this history, Jones resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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