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Henry II
Wilfred Lewis Warren
出版
University of California Press
, 1973
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Royalty
ISBN
0520022823
9780520022829
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=C8KrkVOxaT0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgements ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself, an eloquent and impressive achievement.