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Henry VI / Bertram Wolffe.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale English monarchsPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, [(c)2001.]Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 400 pages, 12 unnumbered pages leaves of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300183993
  • 0300183992
Other title:
  • Henry 6th
  • Henry the sixth
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DA257
Online resources:
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The myth of the royal saint -- An infant king -- Coronations -- Royal adolescence -- The attainment of power -- The royal entourage -- Patronage, faction and injustice in England, 1437-1450 -- The founder of Eton and King's -- War and peace : the problems of Normandy and Gascony, 1437-1443 -- Marriage and truce, 1443-1445 -- Surrender and defeat, 1445-1450 -- Parliamentary opposition and popular risings, 1449-1450 -- The frustration of Richard Duke of York, 1450-1453 -- Madness, 1453-1455 -- The first battle of St Albans and its consequences -- The loss of the throne -- The last ten years -- Apotheosis -- Appendix : itinerary of Henry VI, 1436-1461.
Review: "Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent and saintly monarch and offers instead a finely-drawn but critical portrait of an ineffectual ruler. Drawing on widespread contemporary evidence, Wolffe describes the failures of Henry's long reign from 1422 to 1471, which included the collapse of justice, the loss of the French territories and the final disintegration of his government. He argues that the posthumous cult of Henry was promoted by Henry VII as a way of excusing his uncle's political failures while enhancing the image of the dynasty."--BOOK JACKET.
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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction DA257 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn884499358

Originally published: London : Eyre Metheun, 1981. With new foreword.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The myth of the royal saint -- An infant king -- Coronations -- Royal adolescence -- The attainment of power -- The royal entourage -- Patronage, faction and injustice in England, 1437-1450 -- The founder of Eton and King's -- War and peace : the problems of Normandy and Gascony, 1437-1443 -- Marriage and truce, 1443-1445 -- Surrender and defeat, 1445-1450 -- Parliamentary opposition and popular risings, 1449-1450 -- The frustration of Richard Duke of York, 1450-1453 -- Madness, 1453-1455 -- The first battle of St Albans and its consequences -- The loss of the throne -- The last ten years -- Apotheosis -- Appendix : itinerary of Henry VI, 1436-1461.

"Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent and saintly monarch and offers instead a finely-drawn but critical portrait of an ineffectual ruler. Drawing on widespread contemporary evidence, Wolffe describes the failures of Henry's long reign from 1422 to 1471, which included the collapse of justice, the loss of the French territories and the final disintegration of his government. He argues that the posthumous cult of Henry was promoted by Henry VII as a way of excusing his uncle's political failures while enhancing the image of the dynasty."--BOOK JACKET.

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