Status Updates From The Gothic King: A Biograph...

In which the Pope writes a lot of letters, currently almost every other paragraph. Exactly why this is so important is never explained.

p 23: The lack of discrimination in the vocabulary is a problem for an Historian. 'He [John] managed to keep his forces united until he suffered a great defeat at Bouvines.' As sentences go this is either unnecessarily vague or just wrong. John's allies lost at Bouvines, he was nowhere near the battlefield. If you want to give him total command of the operation then his 'forces' were geographically divided.

Alarm bells ringing. page 9: 'it became clear that this king, so seldom mentioned in the history books'. page Page 12: while many historians have focussed on the events of Henry's reign'. P18: 'the young duke's appalling treatment of Eleanor...' no description of any treatment other than one sentence telling us she was captured. Who was appalled? Contemporaries? Modern readers? Why?

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