Название: The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Автор: Dan Jones
Издательство: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143124927
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 561
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 9,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.