Isabella: And the Strange Death of Edward II
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
Februar 2003
Verlag
Basic BooksSeitenzahl
262
Maße (L/B/H)
22.7/14/2.5 cm
Gewicht
440 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7867-1193-2
In a lively narrative that brings a fresh perspective to the history of Isabella's catastrophic marriage, Doherty illuminates the people, passions, and politics that prompted the young queen, after thirteen years, to flee the feckless, ineffectual king who had sacrificed the English army to ignominious and unnecessary defeat at Bannockburn and to escape court intrigues and her personal persecution by men like the sinister Hugh Despenser. At Isabella's command, though, Despenser eventually met a gruesome death, when she returned to England with the exiled Roger Mortimer and a mercenary army that deposed Edward and enthroned the conquering queen in the name of her young son, Edward III.
Until now, popular history has laid the blame for Edward's death -- supposedly, by murderous hands in Berkeley Castle -- on Isabella, who then suffered the consequences of her lover Mortimer's execution and her own dethronement. Doherty, though, raises doubts as he gathers evidence that reveals Edward II may not have been dead at all -- and Isabella not so thoroughly "the she-wolf" history has believed.
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