King Stephen

by Edmund King

Book Overview

From Yale's English Monarchs series, the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen "King has written a masterpiece that reveals how a medieval political community can both consume and then reconstitute itself and offers readers a king emblematic of his truncated, troubled age."-- Choice King Stephen's reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181957
• ISBN13: 9780300181951
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.9"