Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies: Royal Murder and Regnal Legitimacy - Hardcover

Mortimer, Ian

 
9781847065896: Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies: Royal Murder and Regnal Legitimacy

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Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399, and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender.

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Ian Mortimer is the author of the bestselling The Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. He holds BA, PhD and DLitt degrees from the University of Exeter and an MA in archive studies from UCL. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (by whom he was awarded the Alexander Prize in 2004), and has worked for the Historical Manuscripts Commission and the universities of Exeter and Reading. Among his other publications are a series of four interlinked historical biographies collectively covering English politics 1300-1415 and a revolutionary study of medicine in seventeenth-century England.

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ISBN 10:  1441102698 ISBN 13:  9781441102690
Verlag: Continuum, 2012
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