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The Burgundians - A Vanished Empire (Paperback)
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The Burgundians - A Vanished Empire (Paperback)
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A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle
Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year
'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling
narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy'
Simon Sebag Montefiore 5 stars! Daily Telegraph 'A masterpiece' De
Morgen 'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir At the
end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an
independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent
region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the
English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early
modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But
it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries,
modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand
years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious
aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury
and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the
awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for
dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military
campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable
cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging
despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival
dynasties.
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