A Great And Terrible King by Marc Morris
Edward I and the Forging of Britain
A brisk, narrative biography of King Edward I that follows his rise to power and the energetic, often ruthless program of conquest and reform by which he sought to reshape the British Isles in the late 13th and early 14th centuries: from his consolidation of royal authority and legal and administrative reforms (including the summons of the Model Parliament and a series of statutes) to the military campaigns that subdued Wales with a ring of great stone castles and brought him into brutal conflict with the Scots; the book balances his piety, personal grief and attention to governance with episodes of harshness—the expulsion of the Jews, forced displacements and relentless warfare—arguing that his strength of will and institutional innovations helped to forge a more centralized, if often coercive, medieval kingdom whose legacy endured long after his death.
- Published
- 2008
- Nationality
- British
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- Original Language
- English
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