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Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100†“1300

✍ Scribed by Catherine Hanley

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
492
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

An exhilarating chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of illustration
Acknowledgements
Maps and tables
Introduction
Part I: Two houses collide
1. The new kings
2. Tragedy, crisis and murder
3. Two heirs and two heiresses
4. Brothers and sons
5. A queen of two realms
6. ‘Magna discordia’
Part II: The devil’s brood
7. A king without a kingdom
8. ‘The God-given’
9. Shame on a conquered king
10. Crusade
11. ‘The devil is loose’
12. King Arthur?
13. The fall of Normandy
Part III: The Capetian king of England
14. First steps
15. Bouvines
16. Invitation and invasion
17. ‘Hell is made fouler’
18. A tale of two battles
19. Louis rex
Part IV: Saints and sinners
20. Woe unto the land...
21. Four sisters
22. Captive kings
23. Brothers-in-law, brothers-in-arms
24. The end of two eras
25. The iron kings
Epilogue: Happily ever after...
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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