Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship

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ISBN-10:

0521653932

ISBN-13:

9780521653930

Author(s): Watts, John
Released: Mar 28, 1999
Format: Paperback, 418 pages
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Description:

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 inadequacy, and why did it have such ambivalent and complicated results? This book looks intensively at the political system itself, rather than at individuals, their personalities and patronage networks, and thus offers the first truly structured narrative of the reign.












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