Henry VI : a good, simple and innocent man
Ross, James, 1976-2019
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Henry VI, son of the all-conquering Henry V, was one of the least able and least successful of English kings. His long reign, which started when he was only nine months old, ended in catastrophe, with the loss of England's territories in France and a bankrupt England's long decline into civil war: the wars of the Roses. Yet, failure though Henry undoubtedly was, he remains an enigma. Was he always, as he became in the last disastrous years of his rule, a holy fool, simple-minded to the point of insanity and prey to the ambitions of others? Or was he more active and, as some have suggested, actively malign? In this groundbreaking portrait, James Ross shows a king whose priorities diverged sharply from what England expected of its monarchs, and whose fitful engagement with government was directly, though not solely, responsible for the disasters that engulfed the kingdom during his reign.
Main title:
Henry VI : a good, simple and innocent man / James Ross.
Author:
Ross, James, 1976-, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
115 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241380413 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.043092942.043
Language:
English
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BRN:
1123002
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