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Henry VI: A Good, Simple and Innocent Man

By James Ross

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
2016
ISBN
978-0-141-97935-9
ASIN
ASIN: B01I2I4N0Y
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (11043069 bytes)
Series
Penguin Monarchs
Pages
110\0
Time added
2017-06-26 07:31:55
Biographies & MemoirsEnglandEuropeHistoryLeaders & Notable PeopleRoyalty

Description

Henry VI, son of the all-conquering Henry V, was one of the least able and least successful of English kings. His long reign, which started when he was only nine months old, ended in catastrophe, with the loss of England's territories in France and a bankrupt England's long decline into civil war: the wars of the Roses. Yet, failure though Henry undoubtedly was, he remains an enigma. Was he always, as he became in the last disastrous years of his rule, a holy fool, simple-minded to the point of insanity and prey to the ambitions of others? Or was he more active and, as some have suggested, actively malign? In this groundbreaking new portrait, James Ross shows a king whose priorities diverged sharply from what England expected of its monarchs, and whose fitful engagement with government was directly, though not solely, responsible for the disasters that engulfed the kingdom during his reign.

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