The Reign of Richard Lionheart

Download or read book The Reign of Richard Lionheart written by Ralph V Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship on his rival, Philip Augustus, permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented.