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Lionheart and Lackland

Lionheart and Lackland
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 610
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ISBN-10 : 9781446449257
ISBN-13 : 1446449254
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Book Synopsis Lionheart and Lackland by : Frank McLynn

Download or read book Lionheart and Lackland written by Frank McLynn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality? In this sweeping narrative, celebrated historian Frank McLynn turns the tables on modern revisionist historians and shows these larger-than-life characters as they really were - crusading, fighting vicious wars in France, negotiating with the papacy, engaging in ruthless dynastic intrigue, often against each other: in Richard's case, even holding the kingdom together when fighting in the Holy Land; and in John's, losing Normandy, catastrophically agonising the barons over Magna Carta and losing the Crown Jewels in the Wash.


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