![]() The focus is justified by the fact that King Richard has been both lionized and vilified by historians over the centuries. Essentially, Gillingham sets out to determine whether Richard was a “good” or a “bad” king. ![]() In his preface to the book he stresses that he is not attempting to analyze Richard Plantagenet the man, but rather the political legacy of King Richard I, and he explicitly excludes from his discussion Richard’s “inner life.” He does not look at him as a son, husband or brother, but only in the context of his effectiveness as a ruler - first as a deputy for his mother and/or father and later in his own right as Duke of Aquitaine and King of England. ![]() John Gillingham describes his book on King Richard I, one in a series of biographies of English Monarchs by Yale University Press, as a political biography. ![]()
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