HENRY II

Author: W.L. Warren

Publisher: Methuen

Year published: 1983

Pagination: 693pp illustrations map

Condition: Card covers, bump top r/h corner. Good.

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Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgments 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. That he was a great king there can be no doubt, and it is the author'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 on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king