A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of BritainHutchinson, 2008 - 462 páginas This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king – a man born to rule England who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was as a consequence one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale, and leaving a legacy of division between the peoples of Britain that has lasted from his day to our own. Edward I is familiar to millions as ‘Longshanks’, conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace (‘Braveheart’). Yet this story forms only the final chapter of the king’s astonishingly action-packed life. Earlier Edward had defeated and killed the famous Simon de Montfort in battle; travelled across Europe to the Holy Land on crusade; conquered Wales, extinguishing forever its native rulers, and constructing – at Conway, Harlech, Beaumaris and Caernarfon – the most magnificent chain of castles ever created. Not a man for half-measures, he also raised the biggest taxes and the greatest armies of the English Middle Ages, and summoned the largest parliaments. Notoriously, he expelled all the Jews from his kingdom, and throughout his long reign he struggled to bring peace to Europe so he could lead the whole continent in a new crusade. The longest lived of all England’s medieval kings, he fathered no less than fifteen children with his first wife, Eleanor of Castile, and when she died, such was Edward’s grief, he ordered the construction of the celebrated Eleanor Crosses – the grandest funeral monuments ever fashioned for any English monarch.In this book, Marc Morris examines afresh the forces that drove Edward throughout his relentless career: his character, his Christian faith, and his sense of England’s destiny – a sense shaped in particular by the tales of the legendary King Arthur. He also explores the competing reasons that led Edward’s opponents (including Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Robert Bruce) to resist him, and the very different societies that then existed in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The result is a sweeping story, immaculately researched yet compellingly told, and vivid picture of medieval Britain at a moment when its future was decided. |
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... king ran into extreme difficulty . The funda- mental problem was money . War was an expensive business , and Henry III was not a rich king . His private financial resources , which amounted to the rents and sales from his own lands ...
... king ran into extreme difficulty . The funda- mental problem was money . War was an expensive business , and Henry III was not a rich king . His private financial resources , which amounted to the rents and sales from his own lands ...
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... king since the Norman Conquest , beginning with the Conqueror himself , had been crowned there . The argument for haste was simple : convention also decreed that it was the coronation that made a man a king . Indeed , no king of England ...
... king since the Norman Conquest , beginning with the Conqueror himself , had been crowned there . The argument for haste was simple : convention also decreed that it was the coronation that made a man a king . Indeed , no king of England ...
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... king of Scots was only a secondary concern , just as the selection process had been . His declared priority over the past two years had been ' to reduce the king and kingdom of Scotland to his authority ' : an attributed declara- tion ...
... king of Scots was only a secondary concern , just as the selection process had been . His declared priority over the past two years had been ' to reduce the king and kingdom of Scotland to his authority ' : an attributed declara- tion ...
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The Family Feud | 31 |
Civil Peace and Holy War | 70 |
The Return of the King | 103 |
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A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain Marc Morris Vista previa restringida - 2015 |
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