Richard II a brittle glory
Richard 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 truste...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Penguin monarchs. The house of Plantagenet
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Richard 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 Machine generated contents note: RICHARD II -- 1.Parliament -- 2.Battlefield -- 3.City -- 4.Shrine -- 5.Epilogue |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 125 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen, genealogische Tafeln 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780141979892 978-0-14-197989-2 0141979895 0-14-197989-5 |