Edward the Second

Edward the Second
Title Edward the Second PDF eBook
Author Christopher Marlowe
Publisher [London, Printed for the Malone Society by J. Johnson at the Oxford University Press] 1925 [i. e. 1926]
Total Pages 140
Release 1925
Genre English drama
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Edward II

Edward II
Title Edward II PDF eBook
Author Kathryn Warner
Publisher Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages 517
Release 2014-10-15
Genre History
ISBN 1445641321

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The dramatic life and mysterious death of the reviled Edward II, focusing on the vivid personality of the erratic and contradictory king, his unorthodox lifestyle and his passionate relationships with his male favourites, including Piers Gaveston

Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II

Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
Title Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II PDF eBook
Author Paul Doherty
Publisher Hachette UK
Total Pages 155
Release 2013-08-15
Genre History
ISBN 1472112407

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In chess, from the time of Queen Isabella of England, the queen has been considered the most powerful and feared piece on the board. Known to chroniclers as the 'she-wolf', Isabella, daughter of Philip IV of France, married King Edward II of England in 1308 in a union intended to create a lasting peace between the two countries. But after 13 years of enduring her husband's unkind and dissolute nature she fled abroad. With her lover, the exiled Roger Mortimer, she raised an army of mercenaries and invaded England, successfully deposing Edward. Popular belief holds that Edward was murdered in an infamous manner at Berkeley Castle near Gloucester, at the order of his wife and her lover. But after Mortimer's execution a letter arrived at court that cast doubt over Edward's death and raised the possibility of his escape. The evidence remains controversial to this day, and here Paul Doherty examines it in his fascinating detective study, set in one of the most turbulent and exciting periods of English history.

The Reign of Edward II

The Reign of Edward II
Title The Reign of Edward II PDF eBook
Author Gwilym Dodd
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages 257
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 1903153190

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A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign. Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in comparison to other fourteenth and fifteenth-century kings. This book offers a significant re-appraisal of a much maligned monarch and his historical importance, making use of the latest empirical research and revisionist theories, and concentrating on people and personalities, perceptions and expectations, rather than dry constitutional analysis. Papers consider both the institutional and the personal facets of Edward II's life and rule: his sexual reputation, the royal court, the role of the king's household knights, the nature of law and parliament in the reign, and England's relations with Ireland and Europe. Contributors: J.S. HAMILTON, W.M. ORMROD, IAN MORTIMER, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ALISTAIR TEBBIT, W.R. CHILDS, PAUL DRYBURGH, ANTHONY MUSSON, GWILYM DODD, ALISON MARSHALL, MARTYN LAWRENCE, SEYMOUR PHILLIPS.

Following in the Footsteps of Edward II

Following in the Footsteps of Edward II
Title Following in the Footsteps of Edward II PDF eBook
Author Kathryn Warner
Publisher Pen and Sword
Total Pages 183
Release 2019-05-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1526732947

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“Informed and informative . . . a meticulous example of outstanding scholarship, and an inherently fascinating read.” —Midwest Book Review Edward II is famously one of England’s most unsuccessful kings, as utterly different from his warlike father Edward I as any man possibly could be, and the first English king to suffer the fate of deposition. Highly unconventional, even eccentric, he was an intriguing personality, and his reign of nineteen and a half years, from 1307 to 1327, was a turbulent period of endless conflict and the king’s infatuation with his male favorites, which ended when his own queen led an invasion of his kingdom. Following in the Footsteps of Edward II presents a new take on this most unconventional and puzzling of kings, from the magnificent Caernarfon Castle where he was born in 1284 shortly after his father conquered North Wales, to his favorite residences at King’s Langley in Hertfordshire and Westminster, to the castle of Berkeley in Gloucestershire where he supposedly met his brutal death in September 1327, to Gloucester Cathedral, where his tomb and alabaster effigy still exist and are among the greatest glories surviving from medieval England.

Long Live the King

Long Live the King
Title Long Live the King PDF eBook
Author Kathryn Warner
Publisher The History Press
Total Pages 326
Release 2017-06-29
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0750983272

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Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage. In Long Live the King, medieval historian Kathryn Warner explores in detail Edward's downfall and forced abdication in 1326/27, the role possibly played by his wife Isabella of France, the wide variation in chronicle accounts of his murder at Berkeley Castle and the fascinating possibility that Edward lived on in Italy for many years after his official funeral was held in Gloucester in December 1327.

Edward the Second

Edward the Second
Title Edward the Second PDF eBook
Author Christopher Marlowe
Publisher
Total Pages 392
Release 1994
Genre Drama
ISBN

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The first full critical edition of Marlowe's highly controversial Edward II for twenty-five years, Richard Rowland's scholarly edition presents an old-spelling text which adheres more closely to the first quarto than any prior edition. A full commentary and introduction contextualize the playand give an entirely original account of the relationship between the play, Marlowe's own age, and events which immediately followed it.