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France's premier medievalist offers students a broad study of a very popular medieval period characterised by Richard the Lionheart among others.

• Offers a far greater breadth than other books on this period, ranging right across the Plantagenet empire

• Opens up whole new areas of the Plantagenets such as propaganda, family relations and symbols

• Aurell's extraordinairy treatment of Beckett's murder and it's meaning for Englandand the empire offers a fascinating new approach

The Plantagenet dynasty secured and then lost most of Western Europewithin the space of a century. In this new translation by David Crouch Martin Aurell revives the passion and politics, revolts and reversals of the Plantagenet Empire

By 1125 young Henry II found himself the head of what was to become known as the Plantagenet Empire, a disparate conglomerate of lands stretching from Scotlandto the Pyrenees, From Ireland to Limousin, founded on both civil war and family ties. Through its three generations of existence civil war and familial passions were to be both the source of...