The Hollow Crown by Miri Rubin

The Hollow Crown by Miri Rubin

There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Agincourt. The extraordinary artistic achievements - the great churches, castles and tombs that still dominate the landscape, the birth of the English language in The Canterbury Tales. For the first time in a generation, a historian has had the vision and confidence to write a spell-binding account of the era immortalised by Shakespeare's history plays. THE HOLLOW CROWN brilliantly brings to life for the reader a world we have long lost - a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war - but continues to define so much of England's national myth.

Miri Rubin is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London

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ISBN 13	9780713990669
ISBN 10	071399066X
Title	The Hollow Crown
Author	Miri Rubin
Series	Allen Lane History S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2005-01-27
Number of pages	400
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