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Tales from the Long Twelfth Century - The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire (Paperback)
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Tales from the Long Twelfth Century - The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire (Paperback)
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Loot Price R435
Discovery Miles 4 350
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This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval
Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual
king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of
his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who
contributed to the broad sweep of events. Whether noble and brave
or flawed and fallible, each participant was struggling to survive
in the face of uncontrollable forces. Princes, princesses, priests,
heroes, relatives, friends, and others-some well known and others
obscure-all were embroiled in the drama of historic events. Under
Henry II and his sons Richard I (the Lionheart) and John, the
empire rose to encompass much of the British Isles and the greater
part of modern France, yet it survived a mere fifty years. Huscroft
deftly weaves together the stories of individual lives to
illuminate the key themes of this exciting and formative era.
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