The Plantagenets

The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

De: Dan Jones

Narrado por: Dan Jones

The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—by the author of Powers and Thrones.

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 epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. We meet the captivating Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; her son, Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and King John, a tyrant who was forced to sign Magna Carta, which formed the basis of our own Bill of Rights. This is the era of chivalry, of Robin Hood and the Knights Templar, the Black Death, the founding of Parliament, the Black Prince, and the Hundred Year’s War. It will appeal as much to readers of Tudor history as to fans of Game of Thrones.

Amazing

Great story and narration, typical Dan Jones- which is certainly not a complaint. Onto Wars of the Roses!

An abundance of information

I really enjoyed the book, but in order for me to fully understand I found myself pausing the book to look up a family tree and a map of that era. I had difficulty keeping everyone straight.

Excellent!!!

My adoptive father was related to these, mmmm, people and I found this extremely enlightening and fascinating. Would love to see a book on the Tudors and the Irish potato famine. A famine not caused by the British overlords, but certainly not helped in anyway by them either.

Love this!

This has become one of my favorite books! I loved everything about it. The narration, storytelling, and interpretation were very compelling! I was already familiar will many of the accounts so this enhanced my understanding of these time periods.

Just the right blend of scholarship and enjoyable storytelling

Dan Jones's work is both enjoyable and scholarly. As a casual student of history, I find him to be just the right level for me to connect the dots of what I "sort-of" knew, or what I really only knew from Shakespeare, with a deeper dive into more detailed history and original sources. His work always sets out to prove a point, and he circles back to it each time he wraps up a section, with a clarity that is satisfying. His narration is an easy and engaging listen. I have finished three of his books so far and have enjoyed each one. Highly recommend.