The Plantagenets

Resumen del libro

This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets their story is the story of Britain.

A rich, sprawling cast of characters, the Plantagenets were both gifted and cursed by an inherited trait that made some brilliant rulers and statesmen, and others cowards, bullies and tyrants. They ruled over wars of conquest and wars of defence. They fought holy Crusades and bitter feuds with Rome. At times their subjects enjoyed prosperity, security, national glory and vast wealth; at others they suffered plagues, invasions, famines and ignominious defeat at the hands of their enemies. The Plantagenets were by turns beautiful and cruel, judicious and insanely paranoid, brilliant and a tragically flawed family.

The Plantagenets is divided into three parts, each telling a gripping story of the three main eras of Plantagenet rule. Together they combine as a historical epic of the sort that has not been written of British history for nearly a century. Parts I, II and III, The Angevins (c.1150 1272), The Edwards (1272 1360) and The English (1360 1399) look at fascinating characters such as Count Goeffrey V of Anjou, the first Plantagenet, Richard the Lionheart and his less famous older brother Henry, Edward the Black Prince and the stunning and influential princess Joan of Kent.

Biografía del autor

Dan Jones (1981) es un escritor, presentador de televisión, periodista e 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 programas de televisión como Secrets of Great British Castles, que se emite en Netflix.