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Richard II: Penguin Monarchs

ISBN 
9780141987361
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R135.00
Published 
August 2018
About the book: 
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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