The Fears of Henry IV
The Life of England's Self-Made King
$49.32
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2008
Summary
In June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. That night he awoke screaming that traitors were burning his skin. His instinctive belief that he was being poisoned was understandable: he had already survived at least eight plots to dethrone or kill him in the first six years of his reign.
Henry IV had not always been so unpopular. In his youth he had been a great chivalric champion and crusader. The son of John of Gaunt, he was courteous,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844135295 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844135292 |
| Author: | Ian Mortimer |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 347g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
[Mortimer] has an instinctive sympathy for the men about whom he writes, a real understanding of the mentalities of late medieval England, and a vivid historical imagination which lends colour and excitement to his pages * Literary Review *
Mortimer’s book is a success and tells an important story very well – Richard Francis * Daily Telegraph *
An arresting and original biography – Jessie Childs * Sunday Telegraph *
[It] possesses the rare combination of clarity, liveliness, balanced judgement, erudition without pedantry, and scholarship founded on his own research among primary sources * Scotland on Sunday *
The book is at its most compelling in conjuring a sense of place or occasion * Guardian *
Ian Mortimer
Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize (2004) and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.
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