Free Download House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMV8ZV13 | 2024 | 13 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 714 MB
Author: Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Narrator: Justine Firnhaber-Baker
One of the great epics of Europe’s history, the story of the rise and rise of the Capetian dynasty, dominates the Middle Ages. Starting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around Paris, the Capetians built a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and from the Rhône to the Pyrenees. They founded practices and institutions that endured until the Revolution, transformed Paris from a muddy backwater to a splendid metropole, and popularized the fleur-de-lys, the lily, as the emblem of France. Time and again, their opponents woefully misjudged who they were up against, as through guile, ruthlessness, luck and marriage the Capetians disposed of them all. This is their story, the story of the most powerful kingdom in Christendom.
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