Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)

A Brittle Glory

von Laura Ashe

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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

• Reihe: Penguin
• ISBN: 9780141987361
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.06.2018
• Größe: 180 x 111 mm
• Verlag: Mayhem Books