Sceptred Isle

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781529157345
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2026
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


Description:
A thrilling new history of the fourteenth century - a time of catastrophe and conflict that shaped England for centuries to come - by the highly acclaimed author of The Red Prince

From the bestselling author Helen Carr, a thrilling new history of the fourteenth century - a time of catastrophe and conflict that shaped England for centuries to come.




***THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER***



'A sparkling popular history which brings the Middle Ages' most terrible century to life for a new generation'

Dan Jones




'Tells the story of the 14th-century Plantagenets with verve'

The Times



'A highly engaging re-evaluation of a tumultuous century'

Observer






The death of Edward I in 1307 marked the beginning of a period of intense turmoil and change in England. The fourteenth century ushered in the beginning of the bloody Hundred Years' War with France, an epic conflict with Scotland that would last into the sixteenth century, famine in Northern Europe and the largest human catastrophe in known history, the Black Death.

Through the epic drama of regicide, war, the prolonged spectre of bubonic plague, religious antagonism, revolt and the end of a royal dynasty, this book tells the story of the fourteenth century via the lives of Edward II, Edward III and Richard II - three very different monarchs, each with their own egos and ambitions, each with their own ideas about England and what it meant to wield power.




Alongside the lives of the last Plantagenets, it also uncovers lesser-known voi