The Reign of Richard Lionheart
Author: Ralph V. Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Reign of Richard Lionheart
Author: Ralph V Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1317890426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship on his rival, Philip Augustus, permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented.
The Reign of King John
Author: Sidney Painter
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2020-02-03
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1421435160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1949. Lacking the warlike bluntness of his predecessor, Richard the Lionheart, John came to the throne of England at a time when economic forces in the realm were threatening to undermine the very basis of feudal power. The Reign of King John covers his attempts to adjust a political system to cope with this threat and at the same time to assert the hegemony of the monarchy over its chief rivals—the barons and the church—made his reign one of particular importance and significance in English history.
Lionheart and Lackland
Author: Frank McLynn
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 1446449254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality? In this sweeping narrative, celebrated historian Frank McLynn turns the tables on modern revisionist historians and shows these larger-than-life characters as they really were - crusading, fighting vicious wars in France, negotiating with the papacy, engaging in ruthless dynastic intrigue, often against each other: in Richard's case, even holding the kingdom together when fighting in the Holy Land; and in John's, losing Normandy, catastrophically agonising the barons over Magna Carta and losing the Crown Jewels in the Wash.
The Story of England
Author: Samuel Harding
Publisher: Perennial Press
Published: 2018-03-10
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1531265014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the city of Calais, on the northern coast of France, one may look over the water on a clear day and see the white cliffs of Dover, in England. At this point the English Channel is only twenty-one miles wide. But this narrow water has dangerous currents, and often fierce winds sweep over it, so that small ships find it hard to cross. This rough Channel has more than once spoiled the plans of England's enemies, and the English people have many times thanked God for their protecting seas.
Henry III
Author: David Carpenter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-07-14
Total Pages: 803
ISBN-13: 0300238355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule "Professor Carpenter is one of Britain's foremost medievalists...No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is here poured out, elegantly and often humorously. This is a fine, judicious, illuminating work that should be the standard study of the reign for generations to come."--Dan Jones, The Sunday Times Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to England and rebuilt Westminster Abbey in honor of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor. He poured money into embellishing his palaces and creating a magnificent court. Yet this investment in "soft power" did not prevent a great revolution in 1258, led by Simon de Montfort, ending Henry's personal rule. Eminent historian David Carpenter brings to life Henry's character and reign as never before. Using source material of unparalleled richness--material that makes it possible to get closer to Henry than any other medieval monarch--Carpenter stresses the king's achievements as well as his failures while offering an entirely new perspective on the intimate connections between medieval politics and religion.
Lionheart
Author: Richard I
Publisher: Spiffing Covers
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781910256565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe diary of the second king of the Plantagenet dynasty who lived in England only six months during his ten year reign.
Lionheart
Author: Douglas Boyd
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0750954752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the Crusades to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. In reality Richard detested England and the English, was deeply troubled by his own sexuality and was noted for greed, not generosity, and for murder rather than mercy.In youth Richard showed no interest in girls; instead, a taste for cruelty and a rapacity for gold that would literally be the death of him. To save his own skin, he repeatedly abandoned his supporters to an evil fate, and his indifference to women saw the part of queen at his coronation played by his formidable mother, Queen Eleanor.His brief reign bankrupted England twice, destabilised the powerful empire his parents had put together and set the scene for his brother’s ruinous rule. So how has Richard come to be known as the noble Christian warrior associated with such bravery and patriotism? Lionheart reveals the scandalous truth about England’s hero king – a truth that is far different from the legend that has endured for eight centuries.
Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard the Lionheart
Author: John Gillingham
Publisher: Times Books(NY)
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Richard I (8 September 1157? 6 April 1199) was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy (as Richard IV), Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Nantes, and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was known as Richard Cœur de Lion, or Richard the Lionheart, even before his accession, because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior. The Saracens called him Melek-Ric or Malek al-Inkitar? King of England."--Wikipedia.
