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Author : John Watts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521653932
A re-evaluation of politics and political structure in the reign of Henry VI (1422-61), first published in 1996.
Author : Ralph A. Griffiths
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520359444
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : Bertram Wolffe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300089260
In this widely acclaimed biography, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent, and saintly monarch and offers instead a finely drawn but critical portrait of an ineffectual ruler. Drawing on widespread contemporary evidence, Wolffe describes the failures of Henry's long reign from 1422 to 1471, which included the collapse of justice, the loss of the French territories, and the final disintegration of his government. He argues that the posthumous cult of Henry was promoted by Henry VII as a way of excusing his uncle's political failures while enhancing the image of the dynasty. This edition includes a new foreword by John Watts that discusses the book and its place in the evolving literature. Reviews of the earlier edition: "A brilliant biography that brings us as near as we are ever likely to come to this elusive personality."--Sunday Times (London) "A powerful, compulsively readable portrait."--Observer "Much learning, skillfully deployed as here, evokes pleasure as well as admiration."--R.L. Storey, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Ralph Alan Griffiths
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0750916095
A study of the entire span of Hing Henry VI's reign, from 1422 to 1461, in the SUTTON HISTORY PAPERBACKS series.
Author : David Grummitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317482598
In this new assessment of Henry VI, David Grummitt synthesizes a wealth of detailed research into Lancastrian England that has taken place throughout the last three decades to provide a fresh appraisal of the house’s last King. The biography places Henry in the context of Lancastrian political culture and considers how his reign was shaped by the times in which he lived. Henry VI is one of the most controversial of England’s medieval kings. Coming to the throne in 1422 at the age of only nine months and inheriting the crowns of both England and France, he reigned for 39 years before losing his position to the Yorkist king, Edward IV, in the early stages of the Wars of the Roses. Almost a decade later, in 1470, he briefly regained the throne, only for his cause to be decisively defeated in battle the following year, after which Henry himself was almost certainly murdered. Henry continues to perplex and fascinate the modern reader, who struggles to understand how such an obviously ill-suited king could continue to reign for nearly forty years and command such loyalty, even after his cause was lost. From his coronation at nine months old, to the legacy of his reign in the centuries after his death, this is a balanced, detailed and engaging biography of one of England’s most enigmatic kings and will be essential reading for all students of late medieval England, and the Wars of the Roses.
Author : Ralph Alan Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0510262619
Author : Katherine Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134454532
Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians. Discourses of masculinity informed much of the contemporary comment on fifteenth century kings, for a variety of purposes: to praise and eulogise but also to explain shortcomings and provide justification for deposition. Katherine J. Lewis examines discourses of masculinity in relation to contemporary understandings of the nature and acquisition of manhood in the period and considers the extent to which judgements of a king’s performance were informed by his ability to embody the right balance of manly qualities. This book’s primary concern is with how these two kings were presented, represented and perceived by those around them, but it also asks how far Henry V and Henry VI can be said to have understood the importance of personifying a particular brand of masculinity in their performance of kingship and of meeting the expectations of their subjects in this respect. It explores the extent to which their established reputations as inherently ‘manly’ and ‘unmanly’ kings were the product of their handling of political circumstances, but owed something to factors beyond their immediate control as well. Consideration is also given to Margaret of Anjou’s manipulation of ideologies of kingship and manhood in response to her husband’s incapacity, and the ramifications of this for perceptions of the relational gender identities which she and Henry VI embodied together. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England is an essential resource for students of gender and medieval history.
Author : Ralph A. Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:974291705
Author : Theophilus Cibber
Publisher : London : Cornmarket P
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B387388
Author : Amy Licence
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526709776
“An illuminating and entertaining read . . . an analytical assessment of the two figures who led the Lancastrian faction during the Wars of the Roses.” —History . . . The Interesting Bits! He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage at the age of fifteen. Almost completely opposite in character, together they formed an unlikely but complimentary partnership. Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou have become famous as the Lancastrian king and queen who were deposed during the Wars of the Roses but there is so much more to their story. The political narrative of their years together is a tale of twists and turns, encompassing incredible highs, when they came close to fulfilling their desires, and terrible, heart-breaking lows. Personally, their story is an intriguing one that raises may questions. Henry was a complex, misunderstood man, enlightened and unsuited to his times and the pressures of kingship. In the end, overcome by fortune and the sheer determination of their enemies, their alliance collapsed. England simply wasn’t ready for a gentle king like Henry, or woman like Margaret who defied contemporary stereotypes of gender and queenship. History has been a harsh judge to this royal couple. In this discerning dual biography, Amy Licence leads the way in a long-overdue re-evaluation of their characters and contributions during a tumultuous and defining period of British history. “A delight to read . . . A fresh new look at this power couple.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd
Author : James Ross
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141979359
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.
Author : Urszula Kizelbach
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401211666
This book paints a portrait of a successful politician according to early modern standards. Kingship is no longer understood as a divinely ordained institution, but is defined as goal-oriented policy-making, relying on conscious acting and the theatrical display of power.
Author : Maura Nolan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139446815
Inspired by the example of his predecessors Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated in his poetry, prose and translations many of the most serious political questions of his day. In the fifteenth century Lydgate was the most famous poet in England, filling commissions for the court, the aristocracy, and the guilds. He wrote for an elite London readership that was historically very small, but that saw itself as dominating the cultural life of the nation. Thus the new literary forms and modes developed by Lydgate and his contemporaries helped shape the development of English public culture in the fifteenth century. Maura Nolan offers a major re-interpretation of Lydgate's work and of his central role in the developing literary culture of his time. Moreover, she provides a wholly new perspective on Lydgate's relationship to Chaucer, as he followed Chaucerian traditions while creating innovative new ways of addressing the public.
Author : Stephen Alford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139431569
This book offers a reappraisal of the kingship and politics of the reign of Edward VI, the third Tudor king of England who reigned from the age of nine in 1547 until his death in 1553. The reign has often been interpreted as a period of political instability, mainly because of Edward's age, but this account challenges the view that the king's minority was a time of political faction. It shows how Edward was shaped and educated from the start for adult kingship, and how Edwardian politics evolved to accommodate a maturing and able young king. The book also explores the political values of the men around the king, and tries to reconstruct the relationships of family and association that bound together the governing elite in the king's Council, his court, and in the universities. It also assesses the impact of Edward's reign on Elizabethan politics.
Author : Christopher Fletcher,Jean-Philippe Genet,John Watts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107089907
A detailed comparative study of how kings governed late-medieval France and England, analysing the multiple mechanisms of royal power.