The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire by Loo, Bart Van

The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire

The story of the Burgundian elite and its remarkable court and culture, a medieval and early modern...
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Author: Bart Van Loo
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The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire by Loo, Bart Van

The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire

Dhs. 106.39

The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire

Dhs. 106.39
Author: Bart Van Loo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The story of the Burgundian elite and its remarkable court and culture, a medieval and early modern epic of dynastic struggle, artistic achievement and eventual extinction.

A History of 1111 Years and One Day.

'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year
'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times
'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore
'5 stars!' Daily Telegraph
'A masterpiece' De Morgen
'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir

At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands.

This is the story of a thousand years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival dynasties.



Author: Bart Van Loo
Publisher: Apollo Publishing International
Published: 01/01/2023
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.79h x 5.08w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781789543445


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2022

About the Author

Bart Van Loo has developed a rare twin talent over the years. While drawing big crowds in the theatre, he is also the author of the universally praised France Trilogy and the bestseller Chanson: A sung history of France. The Burgundians is the first of his books to be translated into English.

Nancy Forest-Flier grew up in a Dutch-American milieu in the United States and studied English literature and creative writing at Hope College, Michigan before settling in the Netherlands in 1982. She works as a freelance English-language editor and Dutch-English translator.
Bart Van Loo has developed a rare twin talent over the years. While drawing big crowds in the theatre, he is also the author of the universally praised France Trilogy and the bestseller Chanson: A sung history of France. The Burgundians is the first of his books to be translated into English.

Nancy Forest-Flier grew up in a Dutch-American milieu in the United States and studied English literature and creative writing at Hope College, Michigan before settling in the Netherlands in 1982. She works as a freelance English-language editor and Dutch-English translator.

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