Richard II Penguin Monarchs

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Richard II Penguin Monarchs

Author	: Laura Ashe
File Size	: 55,5 Mb
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Language	: English
Release Date	: 28 January 2016
ISBN	: 9780141979908
Pages	: 144 pages

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Richard II Penguin Monarchs by Laura Ashe Book PDF Summary

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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