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He is one of the most reviled English kings in history He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history His wife took a lover and invaded his kingdom, and he ended his reign wandering around Wales with a handful of followers, pursued by an army He was the first king of England forced to abdicate his throne Popular legend has it that he died screaming impaled on a red hot poker, but in fact the time and place of his death are shrouded in mystery His life reads like an Elizabethan tragedy, full of passionate doomed love, bloody revenge, jealousy, hatred, vindictiveness and obsession He was Edward II, and this book tells his story The focus here is on his relationships with his male favourites and his disaffected wife, on his unorthodox lifestyle and hobbies, and on the mystery surrounding his death Using almost exclusively fourteenth century sources and Edward s own letters and speeches wherever possible, Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen. Best Download Edward II author Kathryn Warner For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I really, really enjoyed this book This book takes on a big task the huge personality of Edward II, the countless myths about him and his reign, and even his mysterious afterlife Kathryn Warner s work is carefully researched, and passionately written Here are a few things I am left with after finishing this excellent biography Edward II loved books good man , and forgot to return two books he had borrowed tut tut imagine the fees.It is interesting that Edward II did not like Hugh De I really, really enjoyed this book This book takes on a big task the huge personality of Edward II, the countless myths about him and his reign, and even his mysterious afterlife Kathryn Warner s work is carefully researched, and passionately written Here are...FROM THE AUTHOR Posted 11 Jul 2014 10 15 AM PDT I m very pleased and proud to announce that my book Edward II The Unconventional King will be published on 28 October It s with Amberley Publishing, is 336 pages long and will include a foreword by Ian Mortimer I m keen to demolish all the myths about Edward so often repeated as fact, but absolutely don t want to whitewash him and gloss over all his many faults and errors It s a chronological narrative of his reign and what happened to him a FROM THE AUTHOR Posted 11 Jul 2014 10 15 AM PDT I m very pleased and proud to announce that my book Edward II The Unconventional King will be published on 28 October It s with Amberley Publishing, is 336 pages long and will include a foreword by Ian Mortimer I m keen to demolish all the myths about Edward so often repeated as fact, but absolutely don t want to whitewash him and gloss over all his many faults and errors It s a chronological narrative of his reign and what happened to him afterwards, with particular focus on the personal, as there are plenty of books already about the politics of Edward s time I want to give the reader a farvivid and accurate account of Edward than has been seen before Kathryn WarnerDescription from...Edward II was probably born into the wrong family He wasn t particularly interested in the appropriate pursuits for a nobleman much less the heir to the throne of England and was ill suited to leadership uninterested and easily led and unmotivated except when it came to protecting his favourites, who tended to abuse their position and rule the country for him He became the first English king to be deposed by his people and is probably best remembered today as the gay king who was kille Edward II was probably born into the wrong family He wasn t particularly interested in the appropriate pursuits for a nobleman much less the heir to the throne of England and was ill suited to leadership uninterested and easily led and unmotivated except when it came to protecting his favourites, who tended to abuse their position and rule the country for him He became the first English king to be deposed by his people and is probably best remembered today as the gay king who was killed by having a hot poker inserted into his anus But the veracity of this legacy while undeniably attractive for dramatic reasons is highly questionable Kathryn Warner s biography of this man, Edward II The Unconventional King, gives the impression of brushing away myth and propaganda to refocus on the historical man and the evidence of his life and reign Thi...Edward II was a deeply flawed king In her book Edward II The Unconventional King, Kathryn Warner doesn t attempt to hide that fact However, she also uses meticulous research to debunk myriad myths about Edward II, including the malarkey that he was killed via a hot poker in the rectum.Edward II had a rough spot in history even without being completely unsuited to medieval kingship He was sandwiched between his father, Edward I Hammer of the Scots, and his son Edward III arguably the most Edward II was a deeply flawed king In her book Edward II The Unconventional King, Kathryn Warner doesn t attempt to hide that fact However, she also uses meticulous research to debunk myriad myths about Edward II, including the malarkey that he was killed via a hot poker in the rectum.Edward II had a rough spot in history even without being completely unsuited to medie...I had mentioned in another review that I know very little about Edward II or his reign, except for the obvious, that he was homosexual And that I wanted to learnabout this time period, and this king I get the feeling after having read this book, that not a lot of documentation remains that wasn t to do with account books That the scribes monks chroniclers of the time period could look at the same incident and come to completely different conclusions And finally that Ms Warner definitel I had mentioned in another review that I know very little about Edward II or his reign, except for the obvious, that he was homosexual And that I wanted to learnabout this time period, and this king I get the feeling after having read this book, that not a lot of documentation remains that wasn t to do with account books That the scribes monks chroniclers of the time period could look at the same incident and come to completely different conclusions And finally that Ms Warner definitely had her favorites in this British Opera Let me begin by saying that I am not from the UK That my antipathy towards Hugh Despenser the Younger i...This book presents an honest portrait of a man, who became king almost by accident, who never wanted to be a king and who never became a king, at least in an conventional sense.Edward II was a man to whom personal loyalty became before the realm, who liked to joke and have some parties, who liked arts and acting, who was at ease with ordinary people, swam in the rivers and did all sorts of non royal things Which naturally was not that cool in medieval England He wasthan likely a bi sexua This book presents an honest portrait of a man, who became king almost by accident, who never wanted to be a king and who never became a king, at least in an conventional sense.Edward II was a man to whom personal loyalty became before the realm, who liked to joke and have some parties, who liked arts and acting, who was at ease with ordinary people, swam in the rivers and did all sorts of non royal things Which naturally was not that cool in medieval England He wasthan likely a bi sexual, who loved his favorite knight, his wife and ended up being locked up by her He lead a huge army to Scotland despite almost non existing the baronial support, fought bravely personally, and lost the battle in the mo...A very enjoyable biography Warner s enthusiasm for her subject shines through, turning what could have been a dry as dust academic tome into a page turning appreciation of one of England s most controversial kin...A book that is rathersuccessful than it s subject balanced and very well evidenced portrait of an inept but not evil king and the strange mystery of whether he died not yep the red hot poker up the bum story is unlikely which is a shame as after the wee...What an excellent biography I discovered this book as I was searching for information on Edward s queen Isabella, after reading a rather one sided biography of her It is always maddening when an historian begins writing a biography with an agenda That is to say they use the sources to tell the story they want told, rather than following them to see what emerges Kathryn Warner did not do this Her agenda appears to have been to tell the story of EdwardII s ...Source Free pdf from Amberley in exchange for a review.Edward Caernarfon was born on April 25, 1284, at Caernarfon Castle in Wales.He died September 20 or 21, 1327, at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England.Summary Edward II is hedged between two other kings named Edward who had legacies of power and popularity Edward II s legacy was his tawdry relationships with male favorites Edward II was tall and handsome, but he did not have the ambition to be a king He became a king because he was h Source Free pdf from Amberley in exchange for a review.Edward Caernarfon was born on April 25, 1284, at Caernar...

Edward II
  • English
  • 25 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 336 pages
  • 1445641208
  • Kathryn Warner
  • Edward II