A BRIEF HISTORY OF BRITAIN 1066 - 1485: The Birth of the Nation (Brief Histories)

The Middle Ages is a complex and difficult period in British history and Nicholas Vincent does his verbose best to muddy the water still further. I always like to pass on book after I have read them, but in this case it went into the paper recycling bin because I was loath to burden anyone else with this long, rambling, incoherent and confusing opus.

Interesante y muy accesible historia breve de la Inglaterra medieval, desde la conquista normanda hasta la llegada al poder de la dinastia Tudor. Nicholas Vincent recorre de forma amena y educativa cuatro siglos clave para la historia británica y del propio continente europeo, dando una visión clara de los diferentes reinados y cambios sociales que ayuda al lector a comprender ese periodo convulso.

For Prof. Vincent, 500 pages of tightly packed text is 'brief'! Perhaps 'brief' here means that he shoots from the hip to from start to finish to punch out as much as possible, and faster than possible, of the staggering volume of information about this period at his command. This work is a riveting read from an author whose dazzling authority expresses itself in a style that is at once elegant and downright gutsy: not one flabby sentence, not a moment of boredom, and not a few laughs.

La storia come non l'avete mai studiata a scuola. Se fosse insegnata così credo che molti la apprezzerebbero di più.Lettura super consigliata prima di visitare i monumenti a Londra, come l'abbazia di Westminster. Si capirà molto di più di quel che si andrà a vedere.

Great book with lots of detail. Will now read the rest of the series.