But its pomp and pride enormously enriched our island's story. Power, greed, religion and sex: historian Dan Jones brings the drama of medieval history alive through compelling stories, larger-than-life characters and. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. Only when Henry Tudor, scion of the persecuted Welsh, killed Edward's usurping brother Richard III and married his sister did the dynasty finally dwindle into a couple of pretenders. Richard II's deposition echoed that of Edward II, and the Wars of the Roses had their roots in Plantagenet pretensions. Jones's conclusion pulls the hectic centuries into a coherent whole, pointing to the emergence of English as a national language, and a wealth of artistic and architectural achievement. Almost all the Plantagenets aspired to being crusading kings, usually with disastrous consequences. Englands greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings. Lacking too is a proper presentation of the profoundly religious medieval mindset. The Normandy coastline, as the D-Day planners. The economics of war and peace are confusing: time and again it seems that the country is ruined, but within a few pages wealth is once again flowing into – and out of – the royal coffers. Dan Jones's 'The Plantagenets' is a glittering pageant of a book which brings to life 300 years of history.

The 'whys' have to be sketchy there is space only for what happened. struggle of York and Lancaster is the dramatic subject of the new book by historian Dan Jones.

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