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Richard II : a brittle glory / Laura Ashe.
- Title
- Richard II : a brittle glory / Laura Ashe.
- Author
- Ashe, Laura
- Publication
- [London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books 2016.
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- Description
- x, 125 pages : illustrations; 19 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Penguin monarchs
- Uniform Title
- Penguin monarchs.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: RICHARD II -- 1.Parliament -- 2.Battlefield -- 3.City -- 4.Shrine -- 5.Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780141979892
- 0141979895
- 9780141979908 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 936200507
- SCSB-11157268
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library