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Henry II, his wife Eleanor and their children Richard and John were the most astonishing of all the family firms to have run the enterprise of Britain. They did so with a furious energy that either entranced or appalled their subjects. And like many family firms, they had a capacity for both creation and selfdestruction. What their intelligence built, their passions destroyed. They were called the Angevins, named after the Frenchspeaking province of Anjou. At the height of their power, they were the masters of everything that counted in Christendom. Their England was the linchpin of an empire that stretched from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees. Much bigger than France itself. Not since the Romans, and never again, has England been quite so European. |
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hēng lì èr shì yǔ qī zǐ āi lì nuò ér zi lǐ chá hé yuē hàn, zài suǒ yǒu tǒng zhì yīng guó de wáng zú zhōng, ruò lùn jīng shì hài sú, wú chū qí yòu, chén mín duì tā men nà zhǒng fēng kuáng de jìn tóu, tài dù jié rán xiāng fǎn, chóng jìng yǒu zhī, wèi jù yì yǒu zhī. yǔ hěn duō wáng zú xiāng tóng de shì, tā men jì néng jiàn gōng lì yè, yě néng zì wǒ huǐ miè. zhuō jué de chéng jiù, zhōng jiū huǐ yú kuáng rè de jī qíng, rén men chēng qí wèi ān rú wáng cháo. cǐ míng qǔ zì fǎ yǔ qū de ān rú, zài qí quán lì diān fēng shí qī, tā men tǒng zhì le suǒ yǒu jī dū jiào guó jiā. páng dà de dì guó yǐ yīng gé lán wèi gēn jī, yīng gé lán, nuò màn dǐ, bù liè tǎ ní, ān rú, ā jī tǎn, cóng sū gé lán biān jìng yán shēn dào bì lǐ niú sī shān, bǐ fǎ guó běn tǔ miàn jī dà hěn duō. zì luó mǎ shí dài hòu, yīng gé lán zài yě méi yǒu yǔ ōu zhōu dà lù yǒu guò rú cǐ qīn mì jiē chù. |