Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies: Royal Murder and Regnal Legitimacy

Ian Mortimer

ISBN 10: 1847065899 / ISBN 13: 9781847065896

Editore: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2010

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• Titolo: Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies: Royal Murder and Regnal Legitimacy
• Editore: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1847065899
• ISBN 13: 9781847065896
• Rilegatura: hardcover
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• Peso: 26 once
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Riassunto

Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399, and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender.

Informazioni sull?autore

Ian Mortimer is the author of the bestselling The Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. He holds BA, PhD and DLitt degrees from the University of Exeter and an MA in archive studies from UCL. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (by whom he was awarded the Alexander Prize in 2004), and has worked for the Historical Manuscripts Commission and the universities of Exeter and Reading. Among his other publications are a series of four interlinked historical biographies collectively covering English politics 1300-1415 and a revolutionary study of medicine in seventeenth-century England.