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Faber acquires Caroline Burt and Richard Partington's 'sweeping history' of the rise of the English state
Faber has seized Arise, England, a "new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England” by Caroline Burt and Richard Partington.
Neil Belton, formerly editorial director at Faber, acquired world English-language rights from Andrew Gordon at David Higham Associates, and the book will be published on 4th April.
Burt is a medieval historian and college lecturer at Pembroke College, Cambridge, while Partington is senior tutor at St John’s College, and this will be their first trade publication.
“Arise, England is a powerful account of the making of the English state, told through the reigns of six extraordinary medieval kings," senior commissioning editor Fiona Crosby said. "Richard and Caroline draw on original accounts and arresting new research to examine two centuries of turbulence, conflict and crises, and provide an examination of leadership that will hold much resonance with readers today.”
Burt and Partington added: “We are thrilled to have the opportunity, through Faber, to speak to a wide readership about a gripping period of history that we have long researched. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the English state developed characteristics so vital and enduring that our lives today continue to rest upon them.
"Also resonating across the intervening years are the impact of political leadership on people’s lives, the intractability of circumstances, and the dominating effects of ideology, economics, war and pandemic. The arresting characters of six remarkable kings frame and drive a universal story.”
