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Author: Kishlansky, Mark

England

Published on 28 June 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Penguin Monarchs’ series.

Paperback | 160 pages
112 x 230 x 19 | 100g

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England’s rulers – now in paperbackThe tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky’s brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles created his own catastrophe, but he was nonetheless opposed by men with far fewer scruples and less consistency who for often quite contradictory reasons conspired to destroy him. This is a remarkable portrait of one of the most talented, thoughtful, loyal, moral, artistically alert and yet, somehow, disastrous of all this country’s rulers.