Dan Spencer
Auteur de The Castle at War in Medieval England and Wales
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- Œuvres
- 9
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- 1
- Membres
- 42
- Popularité
- #357,757
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 14
While this is not a dry history book like you might remember from university, this also is not an attempt to embellish the information with a lot of fictionalized historical accounts to liven it up. It is one of those books that is more about the information than the entertainment value. That isn't to say it is not entertaining. It depends on what one is expecting. If you want to learn some things but mostly want to be entertained it may seem dry. If you want to learn some things and gain most of your entertainment from that, this is not at all dry. It sits comfortably between typical pop history and purely academic history, which is a spot I find appealing.
In addition to the focus on the castle this is also very much a history of the Wars of the Roses. The who and why, the when and where. With a few previously overlooked or rarely discussed instances Spencer adds to the scholarship on the topic as well as offering a different perspective on the period.
I recommend this to readers who might already have some knowledge of the period and want to add both information and perspective to what they know. I also think this could easily serve as an introduction to the period for those curious. Those who prefer history books that might try to recreate events through fictional dialogue or being overly narrative to make it more like a story, this may or may not work for you. Spencer's purpose, it seems, is to share the information in an interesting manner. How entertaining one finds that is a function of the reader, not the book.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (plus d'informations)