Research Catalog

Title

Medieval intrigue : royal murder and regnal legitimacy / Ian Mortimer.

Author

Mortimer, Ian, 1967-

Publication

London : Continuum, 2010.

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Description

p.; cm.

Summary

Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399, and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender.

Subject

• Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327
• Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400
• To 1500
• Opvolging
• Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Biography
• Great Britain > History > To 1500
• Great Britain > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485
• Koningen (vorsten)

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Objectivity and information: a methodological introduction -- Sermons of sodomy: a reconsideration of Edwards II's sodomitical reputation -- The death of Edward II in Berkeley Castle -- Twelve angry scholars: reactions to 'The death of Edward II' -- The plot of the earl of Kent, 1328-30 -- Edward III, his father and the Fieschi -- Edward III and the moneylenders -- Richard II and the succession to the Crown -- The rules governing succession to the Crown, 1199-1399 -- Regnal legitimacy and the concept of the royal pretender.

ISBN

• 9781847065896 (hbk.)
• 1847065899 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 535494689
• SCSB-12320279

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library