The Flower of All Cities: The History of London from Earliest Times to the Great Fire - Softcover

Jones, Robert Wynn

 
9781398112414: The Flower of All Cities: The History of London from Earliest Times to the Great Fire
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1398112410 ISBN 13: 9781398112414
Verlag: Amberley Publishing, 2022

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New in paperback - A unique account of old London with all its energy, filth and splendor before the city's destruction by the Great Fire in 1666.

The history of London up to 1666 is a story of Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Plantagenets, Tudors and Stuarts. Of a city that grew from ancient origins to become ‘the flower of all cities’, until the centuries of building and the lives within it were obliterated by the Great Fire.

It features many of the famous figures in British history: Queen Boudicca, King Alfred, Thomas Becket, Wat Tyler, Dick Whittington, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, and Guy Fawkes. And Geoffrey Chaucer, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Inigo Jones, Thomas Middleton, John Milton, Christopher Wren, Aphra Behn and Samuel Pepys.

It is a tale of ‘great matter’ and ‘great reckoning’, where the nation was shaped, fortunes made and squandered, lives transformed, advanced and lost.

Through the story of early London we can trace a busy, beautiful, dangerous city lost forever, but brought back to life here through skilful analysis of the archaeological, pictorial and written records.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Robert Wynn Jones is a retired professional palaeontologist, interested amateur archaeologist and historian. His ancestor, John West, lived in a house near the Stocks Market, which was burnt down during the Great Fire. John West was married in the church of St Gregory by St Paul’s in February 1666 to the widow Frances Mickell, whose first husband, Robert, had died of the plague the year before. John numbered among his acquaintances the famous diarist Samuel Pepys. Robert Wynn Jones maintains a website on the history of London up to the time of the Great Fire (www.lostcityoflondon.co.uk) and leads occasional guided walks on related themes. He lives in London.

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Verlag
Amberley Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1398112410
ISBN 13 
9781398112414
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Anzahl der Seiten
287
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