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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolffe, Bertram Percy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]
Colección:Yale English monarchs.
Temas:
Henry > VI, > King of England, > 1421-1471.
Henry > VI, > King of England, > 1421-1471
Henry > VI > (King of England)
Henri VI (roi d'Angleterre; 1421-1471)
Heinrich (England, König, VI.)
1422-1461
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Kings and rulers
Great Britain > History > Henry VI, 1422-1461.
Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1422-1461 (Henri VI)
Great Britain
Rois et souverains > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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