Richard II - A Brittle Glory

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback 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 .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laura Ashe, Ashe Laura
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780141987361
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198736-1
• Pagine: 160
• Dimensioni: 111 mm x 181 mm x 9 mm
• Serie: Penguin Monarchs; Penguin Monarchs
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Medieval History, Biography: royalty, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Biography: historical, political and military, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period)