Richard II
Laura AsheRichard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne. Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally succumbing to a coup, imprisonment and murder.
Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales.
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Year:
2015
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0141979909
ISBN 13:
9780141979908
Series:
Penguin Monarchs
File:
EPUB, 26.18 MB
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english, 2015