Richard II : a brittle glory
Ashe, Laura2018
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Richard II (1377-1399) 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 account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign.
Main title:
Richard II : a brittle glory / Laura Ashe.
Author:
Ashe, Laura, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2018.
Collation:
x, 125 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141987361 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.038092
Language:
English
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BRN:
605171
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