A TIMES LAW TOP LEGAL READ 2025 A timely red alert that democratic values cannot be taken for granted The TimesIncisive and eloquent The Telegraph Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pande...Lasīt vairāk
'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Gripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling justification for the enduring value of hi...Lasīt vairāk
Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumptions opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees with it. Daily TelegraphTime spent on Law in a Time of Crisis is time spent in the company of a brillia...Lasīt vairāk
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered from gridlock. In democracies, laws and policies are just as soon unpicked as made. It seems that Congress and Parliaments cannot forge progress or con...Lasīt vairāk
Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of Englands population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred...Lasīt vairāk
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe...Lasīt vairāk
In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the...Lasīt vairāk
In a fascinating work of history, Jonathan Sumption brings alive the traditions of pilgrimage prevalent in Europe from the beginning of Christianity to the end of the fifteenth century. Vividly describing such major destinations as Jerusalem, Rome, S...Lasīt vairāk
Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was su...Lasīt vairāk
'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in Europ...Lasīt vairāk
In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinfu...Lasīt vairāk
Kerry E.B. Black, Glenn Bresciani, Jr. William C. Burns, Stephen Case, James Cato, Barry Charman, Charles Q Choi, DC Diamondopolous, Jelena Dunato, Andrew Dunn...
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