Dan Jones

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The Plantagenets

The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

Beschreibung

The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Crusaders, that tells the story of Britain's greatest and worst dynasty-"a real-life Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal) The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England's best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years' War, when England's national identity was forged by the sword.

Autor

Dan Jones is the author of The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queen Who Made England, a #1 international bestseller and New York Times bestseller, and Wars of the Roses, which charts the story of the fall of the Plantagenet dynasty and the improbable rise of the Tudors. He writes and presents the popular Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles. He is also the author of Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty and Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution and is working on a history of the Knights Templar due out in 2017.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780143124924
• ISBN-10: 0143124927
• Artikelnr.: 39034679

Rezensionen

'Stonking narrative history told with pace, wit and scholarship about the bloody dynasty that produced some of England's most brilliant, brutal kings' Observer

'Colourful and engaging ... Jones has produced an absorbing narrative that will help ensure that the Plantagenet story remains stamped on the English imagination' Sunday Times

'Unapologetically about powerful people, their foibles, their passions and their weaknesses ... vivid descriptions of battles and tournaments, ladies in fine velvet and knights in shining armour crowd the pages of this highly engaging narrative' Evening Standard

'Action-packed ... Filled with fighting, personality clashes, betrayal and bouts of the famous Plantagenet rage' Daily Telegraph

'Dan Jones expertly weaves an enormous medieval tapestry, ranging from the Middles East of Richard the Lionheart's Third Crusade to the battlefields of the Hundred Years War' Sunday Telegraph

'This is an unashamedly royal history and even the most insatiable appetite for chivalric deeds and aristocratic violence will be sated by its conclusion' Sunday Times