
Henry V
Keith Dockray(Author)
The History Press Ltd
Published on 1. April 2004
Book
Hardback
255 pages
978-0-7524-3046-1 (ISBN)
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A controversial biography reassessing of the life and career of one of England's best known heroic kings. The wild and headstrong prince of Shakespeare's Henry IV, blossoms in Henry V, into a veritable hero-king: an epic embodiment of military valour, concerned for the welfare of his subjects and, above all, an archetypal man of action. Such a portrayal reflected not only Shakespeare's Tudor sources but contemporary estimates of King Henry V. To his earliest biographer, a royal chaplain and well-informed insider, he was a model Christian prince, clearly carrying out God's wishes both at home and abroad; the chronicler Thomas Walsingham, writing in 1422, judged him a pious, prudent and warlike ruler; and, to the humanist Tito Livio in 1437, he was an energetic, just and shrewd military commander who, at Agincourt, fought 'like an unvanquished lion'. Modern historians have perpetuated the flattery of chroniclers but should they? Was the real Henry V a national hero, a jingoistic bigot, or neither?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-3046-1 (9780752430461)
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