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Book The Royal Policy of Richard II

Download or read book The Royal Policy of Richard II written by Richard Hutton Jones and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Royal Policy of Richard II

Download or read book Royal Policy of Richard II written by Richard N. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard II

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  • Author : Nigel Saul
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300149050
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Richard II written by Nigel Saul and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard II is one of the most enigmatic of English kings. Shakespeare depicted him as a tragic figure, an irresponsible, cruel monarch who nevertheless rose in stature as the substance of power slipped from him. By later writers he has been variously portrayed as a half-crazed autocrat or a conventional ruler whose principal errors were the mismanagement of his nobility and disregard for the political conventions of his age. This book—the first full-length biography of Richard in more than fifty years—offers a radical reinterpretation of the king. Nigel Saul paints a picture of Richard as a highly assertive and determined ruler, one whose key aim was to exalt and dignify the crown. In Richard's view, the crown was threatened by the factiousness of the nobility and the assertiveness of the common people. The king met these challenges by exacting obedience, encouraging lofty new forms of address, and constructing an elaborate system of rule by bonds and oaths. Saul traces the sources of Richard's political ideas and finds that he was influenced by a deeply felt orthodox piety and by the ideas of the civil lawyers. He shows that, although Richard's kingship resembled that of other rulers of the period, unlike theirs, his reign ended in failure because of tactical errors and contradictions in his policies. For all that he promoted the image of a distant, all-powerful monarch, Richard II's rule was in practice characterized by faction and feud. The king was obsessed by the search for personal security: in his subjects, however, he bred only insecurity and fear. A revealing portrait of a complex and fascinating figure, the book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics and culture of the English middle ages.

Book Richard II and the Rebel Earl

Download or read book Richard II and the Rebel Earl written by A. K. Gundy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Richard II and the circumstances of his deposition have long been subject to intense debate. This new interpretation of the politics of the late-fourteenth century offers an in-depth survey of Richard's reign from the perspective of one of the leading nobles who came to oppose him, Thomas Beauchamp, the Appellant Earl of Warwick. This is the first full-length study of one of Richard II's opponents to explore not only why the Earl rebelled against the King, but also why Richard lost his throne. Rather than offering the traditional explanation of a subject grown too mighty, Alison Gundy sets Warwick's rule in the context of the political and constitutional framework of the period. The interplay of local and national events helps to reveal Warwick's motives as a long-serving member of the nobility faced with a king determined to rule in a manner contradictory to contemporary political structures.

Book Richard II

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Signet Classics
  • Release : 1963-05
  • ISBN : 9780451522177
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Richard II written by William Shakespeare and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1963-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a special introduction by Kenneth Muir of the University of Liverpool, this edition includes a general discussion of Shakespeare's life, world and theater, sources from which Shakespeare drew his work, and a new, comprehensive stage history of Richard II.

Book The Reign of Richard II

Download or read book The Reign of Richard II written by Gwilym Dodd and published by Tempus Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited history of key aspects of the reign of Richard II, last Plantagenet king, who at fourteen faced down the ringleaders of the Peasants’ Revolt and was murdered by Henry IV – an illegal usurpation that launched the Lancastrian royal dynasty. Contributors include Anne Curry, Mark Ormrod, Simon Walker and Alison McHardy.

Book Richard II and the Revolution of 1399

Download or read book Richard II and the Revolution of 1399 written by Michael John Bennett and published by Npi Media Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full-length study of the last years of Richard II's reign and the circumstances of his overthrow by Henry of Bolinbroke in 1399. This title is suitable for anyone interested in history and the monarchy.

Book Richard II and the English Royal Treasure

Download or read book Richard II and the English Royal Treasure written by Jenny Stratford and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable treasure of gold and silver from England and France which Richard II had amassed by the end of his reign in 1399 is fully revealed for the first time in this richly illustrated book. The author explores the nature of the objects themselves, their provenance and later fate, and examines the crucial role the treasure played in diplomacy and in financing the Hundred Years War, especially at the time of Agincourt. --

Book Richard II

Download or read book Richard II written by Anthony Goodman and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard II had a dramatic kingship. This text, written by leading historians, aims to re-evaluate the much-maligned figure.

Book Richard II

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  • Author : Anthony Steel
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-08-22
  • ISBN : 1107622085
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Richard II written by Anthony Steel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1941 monograph by historian Anthony Steel assesses the character and policies of Richard II, who reigned in a time of tremendous literary and artistic change which was also underpinned by great political and religious uncertainty. The book contains an introduction by distinguished historian G. M. Trevelyan.

Book The Reign of Richard II  Essays in Honour of May McKisack

Download or read book The Reign of Richard II Essays in Honour of May McKisack written by May McKisack and published by [London] : University of London, Athlone Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture

Download or read book The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture written by Alfred Thomas and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs on the court of Richard II.

Book Richard II and the Counter appellants

Download or read book Richard II and the Counter appellants written by John Lowell Leland and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The reign of Richard II

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  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 1526112655
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book The reign of Richard II written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited prequel to Chronicles of the revolution covers the first twenty years (1377–97) of Richard II’s reign. This richly-documented period offers exceptional opportunities and challenges to students, and the editor has selected material from a wide range of sources: well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles and legal, administrative and financial records. These are arranged chronologically to form a coherent narrative of the reign. Clear and lively commentary and notes enable readers to make the fullest use of each document. The introduction describes the complex domestic and international situation which confronted the young king and offers guidance on the strengths and weaknesses of the reign’s leading chronicles. The dramatic and diverse politics of the reign of Richard II make this the ideal special subject and an accessible, affordable, student-friendly documentary history of Richard II’s reign has long been needed. This book is designed to fill that gap.

Book Richard II and the Rebel Earl

Download or read book Richard II and the Rebel Earl written by A. K. Gundy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of Richard II's reign and deposition from the perspective of one of the leading nobles who opposed him.

Book The Crown s Policy Against Papal Provisions in the Reign of Richard II

Download or read book The Crown s Policy Against Papal Provisions in the Reign of Richard II written by Diana Lovell Martin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Constitutional Policy of Richard II

Download or read book The Constitutional Policy of Richard II written by Richard Hutton Jones and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: