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The Plantagenets

the warrior kings and queens who made England

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An edition of The Plantagenets (2012)

The Plantagenets

the warrior kings and queens who made England

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The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this history, Jones resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
534

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Table of Contents

Age of shipwreck (1120-1154). The White Ship ; Hunt for an heir ; The shipwreck ; Ambition ; A scandalous wife ; Henry the Conqueror
Age of empire (1154-1204). Births and rebirth ; L'espace Plantagenet ; Unholy war ; Succession planning ; The eagle's nest ; Henry triumphant ; A world on fire ; King Richard ; Hero of the east ; Treachery ; An unexpected detour ; Return of the Lionheart ; Lackland supreme ; John Softsword ; Triumph and catastrophe ; Lackland undone
Age of opposition (1204-1263). Salvaging the wreck ; A cruel master ; Beginning of the end ; To Bouvines ; The Magna Carta ; Securing the inheritance ; Kingship at last ; Holy kingship ; The provisions of Oxford ; The Battle of Lewes ; From imprisonment to Evesham ; The leopard
Age of Arthur (1263-1307). King at last ; A new Arthur ; The final stand ; The king's castles ; The price of conquest ; The expulsion of the Jews ; The great cause and French trickery ; The conquest of Scotland ; Crisis point ; Relapse
Age of violence (1307-1330). The king and his brother ; The king restrained ; Manhunt ; Promise and disaster ; New favorites ; Civil war ; The king's tyranny ; Mortimer, Isabella, and Prince Edward ; Endgame ; False dawn
Age of glory (1330-1360). Royal coup ; Glorious king of a beggared kingdom ; New earls, new enemies ; The Hundred Years War begins ; Edward at sea ; Dominance ; The death of a princess ; The Order of the Garter ; Decade of triumph
Age of revolution (1360-1399). The family business ; Unraveling fortunes ; The good parliament ; New king, old problems ; England in uproar ; Return to crisis ; Treason and trauma ; The reinvention of kngship ; Richard revenged ; Richard undone ; Richard alone ; Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Harper Press, 2012, with the subtitle The kings who made England.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
942.03092/2
Library of Congress
DA225 .J76 2013, DA225 .J76 2012, DA225.J76 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxv, 534 p., [8] p. of plates
Number of pages
534

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27144084M
Internet Archive
plantagenetswarr0000jone
ISBN 10
0670026654
ISBN 13
9780670026654
LCCN
2012039998
OCLC/WorldCat
796756306

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