The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England-金雀花王朝

作者：Jones Dan

书名：The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England《金雀花王朝：那些缔造了英格兰的武王和王后们》

中文简介：金雀花王朝（英语：House of Plantagenet），王室家族是一个源于法国安茹（法语：Anjou）的贵族，从12世纪起统治英格兰，首任英格兰国王是亨利二世。除家族原有世袭领地安茹伯国（1060年–1203年），该朝曾统治过诺曼底公国（1144年–1204年及1415年–1450年）、英格兰王国（1154年–1485年）、亚奎丹公国（1153年–1453年），一度拥有从比利牛斯山到苏格兰边境的广大统治版图，后世称此时期的英格兰王国为“安茹帝国”。金雀花王朝的正式君王有八位，统治着1154年–1399年的英格兰。1399年理查二世逝世后的英格兰由该朝的两分支系——兰开斯特王朝和约克王朝先后统治，而这两家族因为王位争夺而爆发了15世纪后半叶的玫瑰战争。

英文简介：The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England’s best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years’ War, when England’s national identity was forged by the sword.