Four Gothic Kings: The Turbulent History of Medieval England and the Plantagenet Kings .........

by Elizabeth Hallam

Book Overview

The voices of the past bring history most clearly alive, and no contemporary accounts are more vivid or compelling than the writings of the medieval chroniclers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555841716
• ISBN13: 9781555841713
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A coffee table book of the best kind

In a sequel to her _Plantagenet Chronicles,_ Hallam follows the same style and layout and indulges in the same lavishness of illustration. In addition to the four generations of monarchs in the title, one finds featured many of the other influential figures of the time, including St. Louis IX, William Wallace, Dante and Chaucer, Thomas Aquinas, Francis of Assisi, and even Jenghiz Khan. From the birth of the Age of Chivalry to the Black Death that killed almost half of Europe (and precipitated the decline of Norman-Angevin feudalism), these were what the old Chinese curse might regard as "interesting times."