The Reign Of Edward Ii

Author : Gwilym Dodd,Anthony Musson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153192

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The Reign of Edward II by Gwilym Dodd,Anthony Musson Pdf

A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign. Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in comparison to other fourteenth and fifteenth-century kings. This book offers a significant re-appraisal of a much maligned monarch and his historical importance, making use of the latest empirical research and revisionist theories, and concentrating on people and personalities, perceptions and expectations, rather than dry constitutional analysis. Papers consider both the institutional and the personal facets of Edward II's life and rule: his sexual reputation, the royal court, the role of the king's household knights, the nature of law and parliament in the reign, and England's relations with Ireland and Europe. Contributors: J.S. HAMILTON, W.M. ORMROD, IAN MORTIMER, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ALISTAIR TEBBIT, W.R. CHILDS, PAUL DRYBURGH, ANTHONY MUSSON, GWILYM DODD, ALISON MARSHALL, MARTYN LAWRENCE, SEYMOUR PHILLIPS.

Author : Roy Martin Haines
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773524320

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King Edward II by Roy Martin Haines Pdf

"Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home, and constitutional wrangling, ultimately brought to an end by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron. Roy Martin Haines examines Edward II's eventful life and the more salient periods of his reign, situating the monarch in the context of the "empire" he inherited and the aftermath of his unregretted death"--Publisher's description.

Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445641324

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Edward II by Kathryn Warner Pdf

He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his kingdom, and he ended his reign wandering around Wales with a handful of followers, pursued by an army. He was the first king of England forced to abdicate his throne. Popular legend has it that he died screaming impaled on a red-hot poker, but in fact the time and place of his death are shrouded in mystery. His life reads like an Elizabethan tragedy, full of passionate doomed love, bloody revenge, jealousy, hatred, vindictiveness and obsession. He was Edward II, and this book tells his story. The focus here is on his relationships with his male 'favourites' and his disaffected wife, on his unorthodox lifestyle and hobbies, and on the mystery surrounding his death. Using almost exclusively fourteenth-century sources and Edward s own letters and speeches wherever possible, Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far more accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen.

Author : Thomas Frederick Tout
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History by Thomas Frederick Tout Pdf

Author : Thomas Frederick Tout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 200?
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1067162620

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The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History by Thomas Frederick Tout Pdf

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719030897

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Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

In this new edition, Forker provides the most complete and detailed edition of Edward II ever published. He delves into the conflicting opinions concerning the genre and sexual politics of the play, and includes the fullest record of the stage history.

Author : Paul Doherty
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472112408

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Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II by Paul Doherty Pdf

In chess, from the time of Queen Isabella of England, the queen has been considered the most powerful and feared piece on the board. Known to chroniclers as the 'she-wolf', Isabella, daughter of Philip IV of France, married King Edward II of England in 1308 in a union intended to create a lasting peace between the two countries. But after 13 years of enduring her husband's unkind and dissolute nature she fled abroad. With her lover, the exiled Roger Mortimer, she raised an army of mercenaries and invaded England, successfully deposing Edward. Popular belief holds that Edward was murdered in an infamous manner at Berkeley Castle near Gloucester, at the order of his wife and her lover. But after Mortimer's execution a letter arrived at court that cast doubt over Edward's death and raised the possibility of his escape. The evidence remains controversial to this day, and here Paul Doherty examines it in his fascinating detective study, set in one of the most turbulent and exciting periods of English history.

Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526732941

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Following in the Footsteps of Edward II by Kathryn Warner Pdf

“Informed and informative . . . a meticulous example of outstanding scholarship, and an inherently fascinating read.” —Midwest Book Review Edward II is famously one of England’s most unsuccessful kings, as utterly different from his warlike father Edward I as any man possibly could be, and the first English king to suffer the fate of deposition. Highly unconventional, even eccentric, he was an intriguing personality, and his reign of nineteen and a half years, from 1307 to 1327, was a turbulent period of endless conflict and the king’s infatuation with his male favorites, which ended when his own queen led an invasion of his kingdom. Following in the Footsteps of Edward II presents a new take on this most unconventional and puzzling of kings, from the magnificent Caernarfon Castle where he was born in 1284 shortly after his father conquered North Wales, to his favorite residences at King’s Langley in Hertfordshire and Westminster, to the castle of Berkeley in Gloucestershire where he supposedly met his brutal death in September 1327, to Gloucester Cathedral, where his tomb and alabaster effigy still exist and are among the greatest glories surviving from medieval England.

Author : Christopher Given-Wilson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141977973

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Edward II (Penguin Monarchs) by Christopher Given-Wilson Pdf

'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.' The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young Gascon nobleman, Piers Gaveston, alienated even the most natural supporters of the crown. Hoping to lay the ghost of his soldierly father, Edward I, he invaded Scotland and suffered catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn. After twenty ruinous years, betrayed and abandoned by most of his nobles and by his wife and her lover, Edward was imprisoned in Berkeley Castle and murdered - the first English king since the Norman Conquest to be deposed.

Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750983273

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Long Live the King by Kathryn Warner Pdf

Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage. In Long Live the King, medieval historian Kathryn Warner explores in detail Edward's downfall and forced abdication in 1326/27, the role possibly played by his wife Isabella of France, the wide variation in chronicle accounts of his murder at Berkeley Castle and the fascinating possibility that Edward lived on in Italy for many years after his official funeral was held in Gloucester in December 1327.

Author : William Stubbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1002985073

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Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II. by William Stubbs Pdf

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241184219

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Edward III (Penguin Monarchs) by Jonathan Sumption Pdf

Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of England's population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred Years War with France began under his leadership. Yet Edward managed to rule England for fifty years, and was viewed as a paragon of kingship in the eyes of both his contemporaries and later generations. Venerated as the victor of Sluys and Crécy and the founder of the Order of the Garter, he was regarded with awe even by his enemies. But he lived too long, and was ultimately condemned to see thirty years of conquests reversed in less than five. In this gripping new account of Edward III's rise and fall, Jonathan Sumption introduces us to a fêted king who ended his life a heroic failure.

Author : Thomas Frederick Tout
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History by Thomas Frederick Tout Pdf

Author : Kit Heyam
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048552146

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The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697 by Kit Heyam Pdf

During his lifetime and the four centuries following his death, King Edward II (1307-1327) acquired a reputation for having engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with his male favourites, and having been murdered by penetration with a red-hot spit. This book provides the first account of how this reputation developed, providing new insights into the processes and priorities that shaped narratives of sexual transgression in medieval and early modern England. In doing so, it analyses the changing vocabulary of sexual transgression in English, Latin and French; the conditions that created space for sympathetic depictions of same-sex love; and the use of medieval history in early modern political polemic. It also focuses, in particular, on the cultural impact of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II (c.1591-92). Through such close readings of poetry and drama, alongside chronicle accounts and political pamphlets, it demonstrates that Edward's medieval and early modern afterlife was significantly shaped by the influence of literary texts and techniques. A 'literary transformation' of historiographical methodology is, it argues, an apposite response to the factors that shaped medieval and early modern narratives of the past.

Author : Seymour Phillips
Publisher : English Monarchs Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0300178026

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Edward II by Seymour Phillips Pdf

This biography does not present Edward II as a heroic or successful king: his deposition after a turbulent reign of nearly twenty years is proof enough that it went terribly wrong. But Seymour Phillips' scrutiny of the multitude of available sources shows that a richer picture emerges, in line with the complexity of events and of the man himself. If Edward II was not a successful king, he was not fundamentally different in many ways from most English monarchs. The biography strikes a deft balance, taking full account of the problems the king faced in England, Scotland, and Ireland and in his relations with France. It also tackles the contentious issue of whether Edward II did not die in 1327, murdered under barbaric circumstances, but lived on as a captive in England and then a wanderer on the Continent.