Today’s blog post is a guest article by Dr Catherine Hanley. Dr Catherine Hanley is a historian specialising in warfare in the 12th and 13th centuries; she is currently writing a book entitled Louis: the Forgotten King of England which will be timed to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Louis’s invasion, in 2016. Under the name C.B. Hanley she is also the author of a series of medieval murder mysteries set during the invasion.Check out Catherine’s website: http://www.catherinehanley.co.uk/
Here’s a quick question for you while we warm up for this blogpost: think of a medieval English king.
Have you done it? Are you thinking of one king in particular? Then I can tell you that you will generally now fall into one of four groups …
First are those who have misunderstood what I meant by ‘medieval’ – if you’re in this group then you’ve probably picked Henry…
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