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The realm of England: from the Pennines to the Pyrenees

Richard Huscraft’s vivid stories of the Angevins’ precarious mini-empire make the 12th century a joy to read about for a change

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

Tales from the Long Twelfth Century: The Fall of the Angevin Empire Richard Huscroft

Yale, pp.305, £20, ISBN: 9780300187250

Most people know more about the 12th century than they think they do. This is, as Richard Huscroft reminds us in his lively new history, because it is a story often told. Stephen and Matilda. Thomas Becket’s murder. Richard the Lionheart. Bad King John and Magna Carta. These are the familiar friends of Sellar and Yeatman’s ‘guide to all the history you can remember’.

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