Richard II: A Brittle Glory (Penguin Monarchs)

By Laura Ashe

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141979895
• ISBN13: 9780141979892
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.1"