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Henry VI and the politics of kingship /
Henry VI (1422-61) was one of the most spectacularly inadequate kings of England, and his reign dissolved into the conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. Yet he held on to his throne for thirty-nine years and, for almost thirty of them, without much difficulty. What was the nature of Henry's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: ideas and politics in fifteenth-century history
- 2. The conceptual framework. The norms of kingship in the later middle ages. The ideological impact of the civil wars. The political ideas of the nobility
- 3. Government. National government. Local government
- 4. Features of Henry VI's polity. The problem of the king's personality. The minority and its legacy
- 5. The years of transition, 1435-1445. The changing forms of government. The formation of a royal regime. Authority and politics, 1439-1445. Conclusion
- 6. The rule of the court, 1445-1450. The workings of the 'personal rule'. Suffolk and the household. Suffolk's policy and the nobility, 1445-1448. The decline and fall of Suffolk's regime, 1448-1450. Conclusion
- 7. The search for authority, 1450-1461. York and the common voice, 1450-1452. Somerset and the restoration of government, 1450-1453. The demise of the king, 1453-1456. The rule of the lords in the 1450s. The anarchy, 1456-1459.