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The Good King. Rene of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe.
Margaret Kekewich
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Paperback. King Rene is little known beyond France, yet, through his controversial daughter Margaret of Anjou, he affected events in England during the Wars of the Roses. Rene's court rivalled Burgundy in its rich artistic culture and his claim to the kingdom of Naples started a process that led to enormous changes in the power structure of Southern Europe." Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
King René is little known beyond France, yet, through his controversial daughter Margaret of Anjou, he affected events in England during the Wars of the Roses. René's court rivalled Burgundy in its rich artistic culture and his claim to the kingdom of Naples started a process that led to enormous changes in the power structure of Southern Europe.
King René is little known beyond France, yet, through his controversial daughter Margaret of Anjou, he affected events in England during the Wars of the Roses. René's court rivalled Burgundy in its rich artistic culture and his claim to the kingdom of Naples started a process that led to enormous changes in the power structure of Southern Europe.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349542017
SKU
V9781349542017
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99-15
About Margaret Kekewich
MARGARET KEKEWICH taught History in schools, adult education and, until retirement, the Open University where she was a Senior Lecturer in Arts. She has published books and articles on advisers to princes such as Sir John Fortescue and Niccolò Macchiavelli, on the Lancastrian court in exile, and, with Susan Rose, on Britain, France and the Empire, 1350-1500.
Reviews for The Good King. Rene of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe.
'This review can only give the barest outline of the endlessly intricate material, political and artistic, that Kekewich's book addresses.' - Livia Visser-Fuchs, The Ricardian