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[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
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ISBN10: 0300078757, ISBN13: 9780300078756, [publisher: Yale University Press] Softcover 8vo (23.5 cm), XIV, 514 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. 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 ...

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[Suffolk, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
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[Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

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[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

Yale Univ Pr, Date: 1999. Paperback. New. 416 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. 1999. Yale Univ Pr ISBN 0300078757 9780300078756 [GB]

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[Uxbridge, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

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[Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

Yale University Press, Date: 1999-05-11. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1999. Yale University Press ISBN 0300078757 9780300078756 [US]

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[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]