Henry VI /
"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 1...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2001
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| Series: | Yale English monarchs.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The myth of the royal saint
- An infant king
- Coronations
- Royal adolescence
- The attainment of power
- The royal entourage
- Patronage, faction and injustice in England, 1437-1450
- The founder of Eton and King's
- War and peace : the problems of Normandy and Gascony, 1437-1443
- Marriage and truce, 1443-1445
- Surrender and defeat, 1445-1450
- Parliamentary opposition and popular risings, 1449-1450
- The frustration of Richard Duke of York, 1450-1453
- Madness, 1453-1455
- The first battle of St Albans and its consequences
- The loss of the throne
- The last ten years
- Apotheosis
- Appendix : itinerary of Henry VI, 1436-1461.
