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Powers and Thrones - A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Powers and Thrones - A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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From the bestselling author of The Templars, Dan Jones's epic new
history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know
today came to be built. 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' 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? PRAISE FOR DAN
JONES: 'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history ... A skilful
storyteller ... He enlivens the narrative with bloodcurdling
details and arresting turns of phrase ... There is also fine
scholarly intuition' TLS 'Jones carries the Templars through the
crusades with clarity and verve. This is unabashed narrative
history, fast-paced and full of incident ... Jones tells their
story extremely well' Sunday Times 'Stonking narrative history told
with pace, wit and scholarship' Observer
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