Author: Rubin, Miri
Publisher: Allen Lane
Year: 2005
ISBN: 071399066X
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description:
New book, 380 pages. Nine kings ruled England in the two centuries described by this book - six died violently, two usurped the throne and died naturally, if uneasily, after brief reigns, and only one, Edward III, lived into old age, a pathetic shadow of the brilliant young warrior who had once dazzled Europe. The extraordinary world so brilliantly re-created in this book was a turbulent and dangerous one. The country was racked by famine, rebellion, civial war and plague. The advent of the Black Death must be considered the single most terrible event in Britain's history; and the horrific, ultimately futile bloodbath of the Hundred Years War scarred generations. And yet, despite this turmoil, it is a period that left a magnificent artistic and literary legacy, that created a recognizable spoken and written English that lies at the heart of the nation's myth of itself.