A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

Edward I and the Forging of Britain

This is the first major biography of a truly formidable king, whose reign was one of the most dramatic and consequential of the entire Middle Ages. Edward I fought a civil war for his father's crown, went on crusade to the Holy Land, and returned to rule England for thirty-five years with a force no king had matched since the Conquest.

Hammer of the Scots

Morris covers the whole vast reign: the conquest of Wales and the iron ring of castles — Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech — built to hold it; the long wars against Wallace and Bruce in Scotland that earned Edward his epitaph; the expulsion of England's Jews in 1290; the summoning of the parliaments and the legal reforms that reshaped English government; and the devotion to Queen Eleanor commemorated in the twelve crosses he raised for her body's journey south.

Morris at His Best

The same command of chronicle sources and narrative drive that distinguishes The Anglo-Saxons is applied here to a single towering figure. The result is the definitive one-volume life of the king who forged Britain — by force. Handsome Pegasus hardcover edition.

About This Edition

Author: Marc Morris
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9781605986845