Henry V
A Biography, History, Nonfiction book. A very old-fashioned top-down work of history, focussed on politics, economics, and military matters. the first (less-than) half provides a...
Thanks to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. Or is he? The image of the young king leading his army against the French and his stunning victory at Agincourt are part of English historical tradition. Yet to understand Henry V we need to look at far more than his military prowess.While Henry was indeed a soldier of exceptional skills, his historical reputation as a king deserves to be set against a broader background of achievement, for he was a leader and a diplomat, an administrator, a keeper of the peace and protector of the Church, a man who worked with and for his people.During the previous half century or so, England had been ruled by an old king in his dotage (Edward III), by a king with unusually autocratic views and tendencies (Richard II) and by Henry V's own father (Henry IV), a man never strong enough either morally, politically or physically to give a firm lead to his country. When Henry V came to the throne in 1413, England lived in hope of better days.This new study, the first full scholarly...
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- Pages: 480 pages
- ISBN: 9780520082939 / 520082931
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A very old-fashioned top-down work of history, focussed on politics, economics, and military matters. the first (less-than) half provides a basic chronology of Henry V's life; the second (more-than) half is a series of thematic chapters giving overviews of such matters as Henry's relationship with Parliament, the army and navy in his... Reading this book was like chewing sand. Dull and often excruciating, the convoluted grammar gave me a tension headache; not every sentence needs to be forty-seven clauses long and choked with parenthetical expressions, not even in an academic treatise. Clarity of idea is better than pretentious syntactic flourish any day. This book... Rating this book is a little hard, because I'm not sure if I just liked the subject or if it was well written book (or both). I didn't have a problem reading it, though it was a fairly dense book. It took me a while to read it. That said, I was looking to read a biography of Henry V and this didn't disappoint. I was very much into it...
