# The Hollow Crown

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- Book: [The Hollow Crown](https://www.bookquiver.com/miri-rubin/the-hollow-crown) ([The Hollow Crown.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/miri-rubin/the-hollow-crown.md))
- Authors: [Miri Rubin](https://www.bookquiver.com/miri-rubin)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-800-7
- Published: 2005-01-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Agincourt. The extraordinary artistic achievements - the great churches, castles and tombs that still dominate the landscape, the birth of the English language in The Canterbury Tales. For the first time in a generation, a historian has had the vision and confidence to write a spell-binding account of the era immortalised by Shakespeare's history plays. THE HOLLOW CROWN brilliantly brings to life for the reader a world we have long lost - a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war - but continues to define so much of England's national myth.