Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)

Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : 9780141979908
ISBN-13 : 0141979909
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Book Synopsis Richard II (Penguin Monarchs) by : Laura Ashe

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.


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