'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint'Henry III, the son of King John, was catapulted onto the throne aged just nine and reigned for fifty-six years, during which time his self-conscious piety often put him at odds with those around him. Yet as this sparkling account makes clear, he deserves to be better known: for the birth of Parliament, the building of Westminster Abbey, and the development of a kingdom that still recognizably exists today.
ISBN: | 9780241380437 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Books |
Published date: | 04 Jul 2019 |
DEWEY: | 942.034092 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | vii, 128 , 8 unnumbered of lates |
Weight: | 90g |
Height: | 179mm |
Width: | 109mm |
Spine width: | 9mm |