{"product_id":"medieval-intrigue-9781441102690","title":"Medieval Intrigue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIan Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, outlining his ground-breaking approach to historical evidence. An important work from one of today's most original and popular medieval historians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[Mortimer] revisits the methodology of medieval history, analysing numerous key historical texts in a new way to shed a refreshing light on the facts.' -- Your Family Tree 'Ian Mortimer has earned a well-deserved reputation as a writer capable of communicating the fascination of medieval history ... His speciality is the peculiar and the personal: the hidden springs by which the actions of the past were moved ... he still has much to communicate about his explorations of the forgotten corners of Medieval England.' -- Bbc History Magazine 'His [Mortimer's] experimental and challenging approach finds fertile ground in the intricacies and mysteries of court faction, noble rebellion and royal intrigue.' -- Good Book Guide 'It is good that Mortimer is trying to come up with answers and his book provides much food for thought. There is a fine mind at work here.' -- The Catholic Herald Dr Mortimer is well known as a medieval historian who can present his period in a way to make it understandable and attractive to a laymen as well as to academics... While several of the chapters have already been published it is good to have Dr Mortimer's works in this field in one volume: no historian, school of thought or era has a monopoly in the writing of history as this collection shows. -- Contemporary Review Author article in BBC History Magazine, Vol. 13, no.3.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \/ Abbreviations \/ Introduction \/ 1. Objectivity and information: a methodological introduction \/ 2. Sermons of Sodomy: a reconsideration of Edward II's sodomitical reputation \/ 3. The Death of Edward II in Berkeley Castle \/ 4. Twelve angry scholars: reactions to 'The death of Edward II' \/ 5. The Plot of the earl of Kent, 1328-30 \/ 6. Edward III, his father and the Fieschi \/ 7. Edward III and the moneylenders \/ 8. Richard II and the succession to the Crown \/ 9. The rules governing succession to the Crown, 1199-1399 \/ 10. Regnal legitimacy and the concept of the royal pretender \/ 11. Concluding remarks \/ Full titles of works cited in the notes \/ Index","brand":"Continuum Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769642910039,"sku":"9781441102690","price":22.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781441102690.jpg?v=1758722025","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medieval-intrigue-9781441102690","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}