Powers and Thrones by Dan Jones

Powers and Thrones by Dan Jones

Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-'new' present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated . . . The vision takes in whole imperial landscapes but also makes room for intimate portraits of key individuals, and even some poems.--Wall Street Journal

A lively history . . . Jones] has managed to touch every major topic. As each piece of the puzzle is placed into position, the modern world gradually comes into view . . . Powers and Thrones provides the reader with a framework for understanding a complicated subject, and it tells the story of an essential era of world history with skill and style.--The New York Times

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an epic history of the medieval world--a rich and complicated reappraisal of an era whose legacy and lessons we are still living with today.

When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation. In a gripping narrative bursting with big names--from St Augustine and Attila the Hun to the Prophet Muhammad and Eleanor of Aquitaine--Dan Jones charges through the history of the Middle Ages. Powers and Thrones takes readers on a journey through an emerging Europe, the great capitals of late Antiquity, as well as the influential cities of the Islamic West, and culminates in the first European voyages to the Americas.

The medieval world was forged by the big forces that still occupy us today: climate change, pandemic disease, mass migration, and technological revolutions. This was the time when the great European nationalities were formed; when the basic Western systems of law and governance were codified; when the Christian Churches matured as both powerful institutions and the regulators of Western public morality; and when art, architecture, philosophical inquiry and scientific invention went through periods of massive, revolutionary change.

The West was rebuilt on the ruins of an empire and emerged from a state of crisis and collapse to dominate the world. Every sphere of human life and activity was transformed in the thousand years covered by Powers and Thrones. As we face a critical turning point in our own millennium, Dan Jones shows that how we got here matters more than ever.

Dan Jones is the author of The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Built England, which was a #1 international bestseller and a New York Times bestseller, as well as Wars of the Roses, which chronicles the Plantagenets' fall and the Tudors' unlikely ascent, Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty, and Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution. He starred alongside George R.R. Martin in the Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles, which he wrote and presented. Martin appears in the HBO documentary that delves into the true origins of Game of Thrones. Knightfall, an A&E drama about the Templars, used him as a historical adviser.

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ISBN 13	9781984880871
ISBN 10	198488087X
Title	Powers and Thrones
Author	Dan Jones
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2021-11-09
Number of pages	656
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