--- product_id: 1355894 title: "Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris Hardcover – Illustrated, February 25, 2014" brand: "eric jager" price: "VT8237" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1355894-blood-royal-a-true-tale-of-crime-and-detection-in store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris Hardcover – Illustrated, February 25, 2014 **Brand:** eric jager **Price:** VT8237 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris Hardcover – Illustrated, February 25, 2014 by eric jager - **How much does it cost?** VT8237 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1355894-blood-royal-a-true-tale-of-crime-and-detection-in) ## Best For - eric jager enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted eric jager brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris Hardcover – Illustrated, February 25, 2014 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41gqNl4e89L.jpg) ![Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris Hardcover – Illustrated, February 25, 2014 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31EaEj05hPL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bringing History Alive *by C***L on Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2014* I can recommend this book for so many reasons. For starters, I enjoy the historical "true crime" genre, especially when a book throws light on the lives of deeply interesting individuals whose personal histories are otherwise lost to the sweep of history.Note that I am not referring to a certain journalistic tendency to start every story with a multi-paragraph account of the numbingly uninteresting exploits of some random Joe Blow nonentity -- what my significant other's late father used to describe as "Yankel Koch" stories (the surname pronounced "Cock" for maximum percussive entertainment value).For Guillaume de Tignonville was no such cipher. The story of his life is the thread that runs through, enlivening without overwhelming, this incredibly detailed yet never daunting history of the late 13th/early 14th century French royal family and aristocracy and of the at times belief-beggaring developments that prolonged what became the Hundred Years War.I know Professor Jager and his amanuensis/aide-de-camp wife Peg. After reading this book, I am filled with an awestruck admiration for the scholarship and research that pulled this compelling narrative from often obscure primary sources. Thanks to my own abysmal attempt to create a performance piece from the Froissart chronicle on the six burghers of Calais, I know just how difficult it can be to make real history come alive. In this book the author has succeeded in doing so, and beautifully. His vivid descriptions of specific settings, clothing, consumer goods, events both mundane and cataclysmic reanimate every individual player in the story, from lowly long-suffering commoner to tormented mad king.Full disclosure: My birthday is October 25, St. Crispin's Day, so it is not surprising that I would be wildly enthusiastic about any book that is very much a build-up to the battle of Agincourt. But just as that 1415 date would be altered in the Georgian versus Julian calendar, so too my view on the war-like Harry/Hank Cinq/Henry V after reading this book. I still adore that Shakespearean play - as fiction. And for anyone who enjoys reading about the Tudors and the War of the Roses, I highly recommend this account of the contemporary, related, and equally sanguinary royal and aristocratic doings on the other side of the Channel. For those who are fascinated by the heroic/tragic Joan of Arc, this is a superb prequel.Again, the history is terrific, making brilliant use of the specific incident to shed light on the big picture. Professor Jager shows great respect for this pre-modern era. Just as he demonstrates that detective work was not an innovation of the 19th Century, so too he shows that total war was not an invention of the 20th. I found myself shocked by a "justification" of tyrannicide - something I thought a later coinage by Oliver Cromwell and crew - just as I was amazed by description of heavy artillery creating the same sort of craters, and in the same geographic locations, as the war of 1914-1918.Above all, this is an entertaining read. Several times I needed to put the book down for an "oh no" moment of anticipatory dread. The murder mystery does not itself take long to solve, but there is an edge-of-one's-seat tension throughout the narrative that keeps the reader eager to read on. And the text is filled with drily amusing observations: A description of an army corps noted for "their courage, their ferocity, and their propensity to commit atrocities"; an elderly duke best known for an exquisite Book of Hours but whose taste for lovely things also runs to "beautiful young men."Finally (just for fun) here are two trivia questions that came to mind while reading: What 1958 film takes its title from the medieval rite of excommunication? What 1849 short story by Edgar Allan Poe has an incendiary climax that mirrors actual events at the French court in 1393? No, I am not providing the answers. Read the book. ### ⭐⭐⭐ More Civil War than Crime and Detection *by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2014* I can't help but feel that I was a bit misled by the way that this book is marketed and presented. The subtitle, after all, assures me that this is a true tale of crime and detection. However, there are only about two or three chapters that deal with the investigation of the crime itself. There's not really much of a mystery here; the crime and its culprit are quickly uncovered and if I am supposed to better appreciate the investigator's methods I don't feel that the book quite got me to that point.Most of the book is really about the civil war between powerful French families at the start of the 15th century. I didn't know much about this bit of history and being a history enthusiast I thoroughly enjoyed the bird's eye view of this event. As others have noted, the storytelling and writing are quite engaging. I recommend the book to people who want an introduction to this subject or who might want to kindle a spark of historical enthusiasm in someone who might think all this stuff is dull and boring. The story here is a real life game of thrones, with mad kings, daring betrayals, and even a hint of magic.However, I can only give 3 stars because the work feels incongruous to me. As noted, the investigation into the murder at the heart of the book is really quite brief. I was stunned when the author quickly revealed the perpetrator. In the end I was unsatisfied. I didn't get a nitty gritty exploration of true crime and detection (I should note I found the book through its exposure on the blog the Volokh Conspiracy and I had recently read The Faithful Executioner so I have some interest in law and history) and the book's larger subject, the French Civil War, breezes by. That sort of sweeping historical narrative doesn't quite fit the author's storytelling (as opposed to historical) style; the book works best when it's focused on setting up the murder and carrying it out. This is most acutely felt with the chief investigator himself, the provost of Paris, who is set out as a "main character" of sorts, and then all but disappears as the book moves into the civil war, only to tragically pop back up again.I enjoyed the book, but it left me wanting. The literary approach to relating the history ultimately can't be sustained by the entire book (and you should always be skeptical of imposing narratives on history) and the historical meat is quite lean. A good, quick read but not much more. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Real Murder, Real History, Real Trouble *by R***G on Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2014* This is entertaining, well written and well researched. It is the type of book that one wants to read several times.Jager has another book that appears to have benefited from his careful research on this and I gave it Five Stars too. The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France The murder at the heart of this story takes place during the disastrous reign of Charles VI, a king who mysteriously went mad while on campaign. The king suddenly turned on his own men, killing some, and then galloped away pursued by his knights and lords. Finally, he was overtaken and surrounded. His raging mad blows were deflected until he was exhausted and he could be subdued. Oddly, he later seemed to recover his sanity and again took charge of the kingdom only to lapse again into madness. In such a bizarre situation it was inevitable that others would plot to control France while the king was out of his mind, and it was that struggle that led to the murder of a member of the royal family.The historical disasters that grew from this murder go well beyond the scope of Jager's book and extend even into England. The murder led to the near partition of Burgundy from France and its sometime support of the English. That support helped the conquest of France by Henry V and Henry's marriage to the daughter of Charles VI. Their son, crowned in both countries, became Henry VI of England who, like his French grandfather, mysteriously lapsed in and out of madness in his reign. The on-and-off madness of Henry VI led to the blood-drenched Wars of the Roses, the murder of a king, and the bloodiest battle every fought on English soil, the Battle of Towton. So much human misery from one murder. 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