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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity
The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and
Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the
Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling
together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator,
Books of the Year 'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled
historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being
entertaining' The Times, Books of the Year 'An amazing masterly
gripping panorama' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A badass history
writer... to put it mildly' Duff McKagan 'A triumph' Charles
Spencer Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the
story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a
thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the
once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the
first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth
century. It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the
West was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book
identifies three key themes that underpinned the success of the
West: commerce, conquest and Christianity. Across 16 chapters,
blending Dan Jones's trademark gripping narrative style with
authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage
in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting - or
stealing - the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the
rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations - Rome,
Paris, Venice, Constantinople - and it features some of history's
most famous and notorious men and women. This is a book written
about - and for - an age of profound change, and it asks the
biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we
come from? What made us? Where do we go from here? Also available
in audio, read by the author.
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