The best books about history capture what is was like to live in a particular place in time, leaning into the essential and unchanging humanity of, well, humanity. In Eric Jager’s Blood Royal (2014) it’s easy to relate to figures such as the landlord who inadvertently rents a house to unsavory characters or a woman soothing her baby who witnesses a crime. Jager even helps us relate to the person on which he focuses: the provost in charge of law and order in 15th century […]
A Historical Page-Turner
Blood Royal by Eric Jager