Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)
Author | : Laura Ashe |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780141979908 |
ISBN-13 | : 0141979909 |
Rating | : 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Download or read book Richard II (Penguin Monarchs) written by Laura Ashe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.