Henry Plantagenet by Richard Barber

Henry Plantagenet

by Richard Barber

The Boydell Press, 1972, ISBN 0851159931, colour and black and white photographic plates, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions or markings, uncreased spine (see photographs)

"Henry II is the most imposing figure among the medieval kings of England.  His fiefs and domains extended from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, and his court was frequented by the greatest thinkers and men of letters of his time, besides ambassadors from all over Europe.  Richard Barber's life of Henry is both a study of his character and an estimate of his work as a ruler, work which is in a sense the history of his life, since it occupied his entire energies from his accession at the age of twenty-one to his death thirty-five years later."