Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardback)

'A terrifically colourful and compelling narrative history... A hugely impressive achievement, bustling and sizzling with life on every page... This is now simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' - Sunday Times

'Excellent... Combines [Jones's] usual narrative exuberance and playfulness with the authority and span to bring together an amazing masterly gripping panorama' - Simon Sebag Montefiore

'Empires come and go, religions form and break up, ideas clash and mingle - 1,100 years, 16 sweeping chapters, 700 pacey pages... Masterly, muscular and direct' - Ed Smith, New Statesman

'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' - Peter Frankopan,

'Dan Jones is in a class of his own... Read this book to wrap your head around 1,000 years of history with as much ease and enjoyment as relaxing into a good novel' - Professor Suzannah Lipscomb

'Jones is careful to entertain, as well as enlighten... Flashes of humour exist on the same page as academic rigour... Copious colour plates turn Powers and Thrones into a great gift, as well as a great read' - Aspects of History

'An epic new history of the Middle Ages, which grippingly chronicles the forces that defined the period - and which would go on to shape ours' - Huffington Post

'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being entertaining' - The Times

'In an age when medieval culture is easily and explicitly repurposed for ill, we are lucky to have a book that insists on portraying Europe's deep connections with other parts of the world and that wants to rehydrate the Middle Ages back from the flat, racist version. We are luckier still to have a book that narrates the past so thoroughly, vividly and joyfully' - Independent