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Total pages original book: 144
Includes a PDF summary of 12 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 9M4S (2.4 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
Other categories, genre or collection: Medieval History, British & Irish History, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Biography: Royalty, Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500