Helen Carr Collection 2 Books Set The Red Prince & Sceptred Isle Paperback

Description :\nThe Red Prince:Son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all the Tudors. Always close to the English throne, John of Gaunt left a complex legacy. Too rich, too powerful, too haughty\u2026 did he have his eye on his nephew\u2019s throne? Why was he such a focus of hate in the Peasants\u2019 Revolt?In examining the life of a pivotal medieval figure, Helen Carr paints a revealing portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated into English, patronised the arts, ran huge risks to pursue the woman he loved\u2026 and, according to Shakespeare, gave the most beautiful of all speeches on England\nSceptred Isle:The death of Edward I in 1307 marked the beginning of a period of intense turmoil and change in England. The fourteenth century ushered in the beginning of the bloody Hundred Years\u2019 War with France, an epic conflict :