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Richard Cust

Auteur van Charles I

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This is an excellent study of the relationship of Charles I with his nobility. It is deeply specialised. I fear it would be difficult for the casual historian to get through without a firm understanding of Charles and his reign.

One of the primary points that Cust drives home is that Charles made a much better organiser and leader of an aristocratic royalist party than a monarch. It is convincingly shown that Charles managed to bring the honours system back under control and could curtail the inflation of honours as well as rebuild a due respect for the nobility. In return, the brought large segments of the politically active nobility to support the King up to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642.… (meer)
 
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Werken
6
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2
Leden
85
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#214,931
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½ 4.5
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1
ISBNs
19

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