Summer of Blood

Resumen del libro

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic and bloody events in English history. Starting with village riots in the Essex countryside, chaos rapidly spread across much of the south-east of England, as tens of thousands of ordinary men and women marched in fury to London, torching houses, slaughtering their social superiors and terrifying the life out of those who got in their way. The burning down of Savoy Palace, home to the most powerful magnate in the realm, marked one of the Revolt's most violent episodes. The Peasants' Revolt has remained an underexplored period of history. In revisiting the bloody events of 1381, Dan Jones has brought back to glorious life the squalor, drama and complex hierarchies of a society that until now seemed almost too distant to imagine. His examination of village life and the failings of government from the perspective of the Revolt's key players is both intellectually stimulating and compulsively readable

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Dan Jones (1981) es un historiador especializado en la Edad Media. Estudió en la Universidad de Cambridge, donde fue discípulo de David Starkey. Jones se ha convertido en uno de los historiadores más populares de la actualidad en Reino Unido gracias a sus obras de divulgación histórica y documentales de televisión. Es autor de x{0026}lt;i Los templarios: auge y caída de los guerreros de Diosx{0026}lt;/i (Ático de los Libros, 2018), x{0026}lt;i Los cruzados: la épica historia de las guerras por Tierra Santax{0026}lt;/i (Ático de los Libros, 2020) y x{0026}lt;i Poder y tronos: una nueva historia de la Edad Mediax{0026}lt;/i (Ático de los Libros, 2020). x{0026}lt;i Los Perros de Essexx{0026}lt;/i es su primera y magistral novela.x{0026}lt;/p