Richard II (Penguin Monarchs): A Brittle Glory
- ISBN-10
- 0141979909
- ISBN-13
- 9780141979908
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-01-28
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Laura Ashe
Description
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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