Liam Guilar’s Reviews > The Gothic King: A Biography of Henry III > Status Update
Liam Guilar
is on page 23 of 240
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.
— Nov 04, 2023 04:08PM
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Liam Guilar
is on page 65 of 240
In which the Pope writes a lot of letters, currently almost every other paragraph. Exactly why this is so important is never explained.
— Nov 06, 2023 02:50AM
Liam Guilar
is on page 9 of 240
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?
— Nov 04, 2023 03:54PM
