Three Armies in Britain

The Irish Campaign of Richard II and the Usurpation of Henry IV, 1397-99
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15215-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 300 Seiten, Gewicht: 694 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

This work reexamines the political and military aspects of the Revolution of 1399 that removed Richard II and placed Henry of Lancaster on the English throne. It argues that Henry of Lancaster was not the "all conquering" hero of 1399 but was rather the leader of a coalition of disaffected noblemen who had old scores to settle with Richard II. It also proposes that Richard II was not an incompetent king whose personality disorder(s) and/or tyrannical behavior brought about his fall. Rather, it argues that the king was in no worse a political position in 1399 than in 1387 or even 1381. As on the previous two great crises of the reign, the king forwent a military option of dealing with his opponents and decided to let the issues of 1399 play themselves out on the field of politics. Both in 1381 and 1387 this tactic had proven effective and there was nothing to suggest in 1399 that it would not be so again.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biggs, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
List of Maps

Chapter One: Historiographical Problems, and Perspectives, and the English Experience of War in the Late Fourteenth Century
Chapter Two: Richard II and the “Irish Question,” 1390–99
Chapter Three: Henry of Lancaster and his Invasion of England, April–August 1399
Chapter Four: Edmund of Langley and the Defense of the Realm, June–July 1399
Chapter Five: Henry of Lancaster, the North, and his March to Berkeley, 28 June–27 July 1399
Chapter Six: The Choices of King Richard, June–August 1399
Chapter Seven: Henry of Lancaster: From Rebel to King, August–September, 1399
Chapter Eight: Conclusions: The Effect of the Lancastrian Revolution on the English Political Landscape

Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas L Biggs, Ph.D. (1996) in History, University of Minnesota, is Associate Professor of History at University of Nebraska – Kearney. He has published extensively on late medieval English political and military history including co-editing, Henry IV: The Establishment of the Regime, 1399-1406 (Woodbridge, 2003).