Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258 Volume 1

Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258 Volume 1

Carpenter, David

Paperback

Series: English Monarchs

Biographies GeneralMedieval & Renaissance History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0300259190
ISBN13: 9780300259193
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Mar 30 2021
Pages: 800
Weight: 1.76
Height: 2.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The first in a groundbreaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule

Professor Carpenter is one of Britain's foremost medievalists. . . . No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is here poured out, elegantly and often humorously. This is a fine, judicious, illuminating work that should be the standard study of the reign for generations to come.--Dan Jones, Sunday Times

Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to England and rebuilt Westminster Abbey in honor of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor. He poured money into embellishing his palaces and creating a magnificent court. Yet this investment in soft power did not prevent a great revolution in 1258, led by Simon de Montfort, ending Henry's personal rule.

Eminent historian David Carpenter brings to life Henry's character and reign as never before. Using source material of unparalleled richness--material that makes it possible to get closer to Henry than any other medieval monarch--Carpenter stresses the king's achievements as well as his failures while offering an entirely new perspective on the intimate connections between medieval politics and religion.

Also in

Biographies General

View All