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Lionheart and Lackland Frank McLynn

Lionheart and Lackland von Frank McLynn

Lionheart and Lackland Frank McLynn

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Zusammenfassung

Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence.

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Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest Frank McLynn

Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality?

In this sweeping narrative, celebrated historian Frank McLynn turns the tables on modern revisionist historians and shows these larger-than-life characters as they really were - crusading, fighting vicious wars in France, negotiating with the papacy, engaging in ruthless dynastic intrigue, often against each other: in Richard's case, even holding the kingdom together when fighting in the Holy Land; and in John's, losing Normandy, catastrophically agonising the barons over Magna Carta and losing the Crown Jewels in the Wash.

Lionheart and Lackland Bewertungen

I finished this book thoroughly convinced by McLynn's thesis about Richard and John, and his book kept me locked to its pages for four hours at a stretch without even stirring to switch on my kettle -- Murrough O'Brien * Independent on Sunday *
Marvellously readable and strikingly opinionated... McLynn clearly relishes putting the boot into the villain of his piece... This is popular history as it should be written: full blooded, yet firmly grounded in scholarship -- Nigel Jones * Literary Review *
A rattling good read * Spectator *
History at its most readable * Bookseller *
Brilliant... a good example of how fresh scholarship can illuminate dusty but vital corners of history * The Good Book Guide *

Über Frank McLynn

Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian, who specializes in biographies and military history. He has written over 20 books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon and Richard the Lionheart. Other books include 1066, Stanley, 1759, and Marcus Aurelius. He is a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR001783843
9780712694179
071269417X
Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest Frank McLynn
Frank McLynn
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Vintage Publishing
20071004
608
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