England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422.(Review)

Canadian Journal of History | April 1, 1999| | Copyright

England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422, by Paul Strohm. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. xiv, 274 pp. $55.25 Can.

Upon deposing Richard II and seizing the English throne in 1399, Henry of Lancaster faced a conundrum that was to haunt both his reign and that of his son Henry V: how to legitimize usurpation and murder. The image of the empty throne, depicted on the dustjacket of Paul Strohm's fascinating new book, captures the impossibility of their task. It was crucial for the official Lancastrian narrative ...

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