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Chronicles of the Revolution, 1397â "1400: The Reign of Richard II

Chronicles of the Revolution, 1397â "1400: The Reign of Richard II

Given-Wilson, Chris

Paperback

Series: Manchester Medieval Sources

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0719035279
ISBN13: 9780719035272
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Feb 28 1993
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This collection of sources covers one of the most controversial and shocking episodes in medieval English history, the 'tyranny' and deposition of Richard II and the usurpation of the throne by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV. Contemporaries were sharply divided about the rights and wrongs of both Richard and Henry, and this division is reflected in the texts which form the major part of these sources. All the principal contemporary chronicles are represented in this collection, from the violently partisan Thomas Walsingham, chronicler of St Alban's Abbey who saw Richard as a tyrant and murderer, to the indignant Dieulacres chronicler, who claimed that the 'innocent king' was tricked into surrender by his perjured barons.

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