Henry IV of Castile, 1425-1474
by Townsend Miller
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"Out of the turbulent, shadowed histories of the vaious medieval kingdoms destined to become Spain looms a strange, awkward figure--Henry IV of Castile... All his life he was an eccentric and a failure--the luckles veteran of futile campaigns, the bewildered victim of unending intrigue. A gentle giant who loved music and animals in an age when monarchs were generally preoccupied with conquest and slaughter, he found companionship chiefly amontg the lowborn... [This book] is a personal drama: show more a penetrating study of the nature, psychological and sexual, of a hitherto little-known king... played out against a vivid background of violence and war, with a cast of characters unequaled anywhere in the annals of history for their cunning and treachery"--Jacket flap. show lessTags
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 946.3 — History & geography History of Europe Spain & Portugal Old Castile
- LCC
- DP143 .M5 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Spain – Portugal History of Spain History By period 711-1516. Moorish domination and the Reconquest Castile and Leon
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