
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms
A History of France and England, 1100-1300
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Narrated by:
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Jennifer M. Dixon
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By:
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Catherine Hanley
An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the course of history. The Capetians of France and the Angevins of England waged war, made peace, and intermarried. The lands under the control of the English king once reached to within a few miles of Paris, and those ruled by the French house, at their apogee, crossed the Channel and encompassed London itself.
In this lively, engaging history, Catherine Hanley traces the great clashes, and occasional friendships, of the two dynasties. Along the way, she emphasizes the fascinating and influential women of the houses—including Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castille—and shows how personalities and familial bonds shaped the fate of two countries. This is a tale of two intertwined dynasties that shaped the present and the future of England and France, told through the stories of the people involved.
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Good book let down by a poor narrator
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Good book worth the time
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Love this time period, too many names
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It’s a quick “just the facts” run-through of the middle monarchs in England and France and deals mostly with their relationship to each other. This means much of the history of the two kingdoms themselves is glossed over (wars in Wales, Spain, Scotland, Italy, and Germany). Footnoting these details allows the book to be brief and to the point, and successfully paints a picture of two houses and two kingdoms that can certainly look like a single house of a fractured kingdom.
Cool crash course for the monarchs of the high Middle Ages
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Good history
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Excellent!
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A lot of information, well presented
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That is what kept me interested. Who was going to marry whom, war with, and die either in child birth, infant mortality by dysentery, or in rare cases on the battlefield.
The world was so different than it is today, child weddings, births hoping for a boy and having 9 and in some cases more children before the woman was 30!!
Even with the numerous names being the same the author keeps them straight as she tells the story of these to Kingdoms. All that was done to keep them strong and relevant, only as we know to have it thrown away in the centuries that followed.
Details, Details, Details
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Great book with a bit of slant
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Well, I was able to listen to the stories provided and enjoyed they.
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Good, lots of backstory. It will help you sort who
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