I need history book recs as exciting to read as this, please. I'm talking medieval batshit craziness starring iconic chads and chuds. Thanks.
Pageant of England seriesA History of the CrusadesSumption's Hundred Years War
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire
>>25247616Note: the Plantagenets were originally French :)
>>25247616The later volumes of Gibbon will scratch your itch.And read the earlier volumes while you're at it.
>>25247824>Errrm actually they were le heckin Hitler sent hyperborean vikings
>>25247616The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones is the direct sequel. For a worldwide view of crazy shit, check out The World: A Family History by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
>>25247616The Peter the Great biography by Massie.
>>25247616There is a similar book on the Tudors and they are equally batshit. The Pope's Daughter by Bettany Hughes
Get something on the Borgias or Medici. Italian mercenary wars are something else. John Hawkenwood is another cool figure. Mercenaries and Their Masters is excellent but more an in depth military history and fairly technical, less narrative.
>>25247616>I’m talking medieval batshit craziness starring iconic chads and chuds.I don’t know what OP is asking for. “Iconic chads and chuds” is unclear. Does he mean famous like Charlemagne, Joan of Arc and Christopher Columbus? Because those are the only ones normies are likely to know.I also struggle to think of kings as insane as Nero or Caligula, the medieval period was overall a rather sober time due to the strong influence of the church.The Sack of Baghdad fits the bill but it lacks the recognizable chads and chuds OP is asking for…
>>25247937>the medieval period was overall a rather sobering time due to the strong influence of the churchYeah, the Crusades and the Inquisition were sober as fuck. Not to mention all the intrigues between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.
>>25247941The Crusades and the Inquisition make perfect sense when you understand the context behind them. Plus they don’t really involve “iconic” figures. Saladin is well-known because he appears in Kingdom of Heaven and leaves a lasting impression and you MIGHT meet a normie who knows who Torquemada was but still I don’t it meets OP’s criteria.The Cadaver Synod is a legitimately batshit and macabre episode (niggas literally dug up a corpse just so they could try it in a court of law and “execute” him postmortem) but none of the players are well known to anyone outside historians
>>25247956>Saladin is well-known because he appears in Kingdom of Heaven
The ultimate Chad versus Chud, Patrician versus Plebian, Ultra-Rich Banker-Billionaire versus Homeless Prophet.
>>25247956>The Crusades and the Inquisition make perfect sense when you understand the context behind them.Thanks, Captain Obvious. So does literally eveything.My point was to refute the laughable notion that Christianity was a sober and stabilising influence.
>>25248042>Savonarola>ChudHe was a martyr saint. We should be so blessed as to have another like him, who made the Gateses, Soroses, Trumps, Musks, and Bezoses of his era seethe and quake in fear.>>25247616If you want a fun read, Lamb's Iron Men and Saints on the First Crusade is quite good. It isn't super scholarly, but it keeps pretty close to the main primary sources.
>>25248052>Muh dark ages Enlightenment/Protestant meta-narrative It's ok brother, I have a good recommendation for you too.
>>25248087>>25248052
>>25247616Harold Lamb's duology on the Crusades, one from the side of the Christians and the other from the Saracens.
>>25248083Wait, didn't see this post!
The Greatest Knight
>>25247941POPE SEXTOUS IVSTOPPLEASE
Can anyone recommend historical authors as accessible as Dan Jones?
why do you read more than one history book?>their official ambition was x, but the recorded events confirm that {five recurring hidden motives} were more important in the end.Zzzzzz>when the savant heard the news about the epic betrayal, he destroyed his gift for the King and killed himself in a spectacular auto-da-feZzzzzzzz>when the King learned about his suicide, he said something so witty and laconic, it survived into pop cultureZzzzzz
