Richard II (Penguin Monarchs) : A Brittle Glory EPUB
by Laura Ashe
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series
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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.
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- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/01/2016
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- ISBN:9780141979908
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/01/2016
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- ISBN:9780141979908