#dan jones

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones (2021)?

yes

no

I've read parts of it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onDec 3, 2025

[asterionides]

oh man I'm gonna need a citation for Nigel Saul tearing Dan Jones a new one because that sounds absolutely magical

God, it's so good - I literally think about that review every time I read shitty non-fiction lol

It was published in the 10th July 2009 Times Literary Supplement issue. I don't think it's available for free online anywhere so I'm gonna post screenshots of the review (it's literally titled "Souped up" lmao) and hopefully you can click for better quality

Also very much enjoy the fact that Dan Jones gave an interview where he said that he had originally intended to write a book on Richard II but changed his mind because “Nigel Saul had already written a magnificent biography of him in the Yale series, which was both scholarly and sublimely readable, and that to hope to better that was probably pointless”

I just know the real reason was because he KNEW Nigel was going to absolutely destroy whatever he wrote. He was quaking in his little leather jacket.

[forislynx]

Narcissus is seen [...] as a failed lover who struggled to have empathy with others. He simply doesn't love women the way he should and exists outside of the heteronormative world with all its pressures of marriage and baby-making. [...] Most importantly, it is not just his own reflection that Narcissus falls in love with, but the image of a man.

Dan Jones, Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints and Queerness Through the Ages

[jbberry7]

What roles does Adam Driver look the sexiest? Here are a few of my picks, but actually think he pretty much looks sexy in them all. Dan Jones from The Report his work ethic is sexy. Flip Zimmerman is a good man and looks sexy with a gun. Toby from The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is A Knight in Shining Armor.

[medievalistsnet]

Henry V with Dan Jones - The Medieval Podcast, Episode 261 - Medievalists.net

Last week, we looked at the story of Richard II and Henry IV, and the way these two cousins wielded the power of the English crown. This wee

[plushmer]

Halo 2 shenanigans with jhobs, Barry, Dan, and keizaron

[kammartinez]

Anna Komnene’s gift to both her beloved parents and to scholarship was to compose, late in life, a long history of her father’s reign: the first major Western history by a woman. Written in Greek and with a heavily exculpatory skew, her book, known as the Alexiad, narrated, justified and excused the events between Alexios’s rise to power in 1081 and his death in 1118. It provided an extraordinary insight into the fraught politics of the Byzantine Empire at the turn of the twelfth century. The Alexiad was alive with gossip, insider knowledge, portraits of Byzantines, their friends and their foes, battle stories, tangled tales of political intrigue and effortless scholarly allusions to historians of past times.

from Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands, by Dan Jones

[perlahs]

romford essexdogs your gay ass will always be famous