Description
Justine Firnhaber-Baker's meticulously researched, brilliantly compelling history of the Valois dynasty—one of medieval history's most dramatic and most consequential royal families—brings the full sweep of fourteenth and fifteenth century French history to life through the specific human beings who made it, with the narrative drive and the scholarly authority that make the best popular history so irresistible. Written with genuine historical depth and the storytelling gift that transforms scholarship into genuine pleasure, this is essential reading for every lover of medieval European history and every reader who believes that the past is most alive when it is most specifically, most personally rendered. A magnificent work.
