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history edward III lived too long to be great, says helen castor
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The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English
Nation
BY IAN MORTIMER
JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 20, 536 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)
0870 428 4115
It is an occupational hazard for medieval historians that they
labour in the long shadow of 1066 And All That - which makes it
impossible, at the end of 17 densely argued chapters, to encounter
Ian Mortimer's conclusion that Edward III 'was, quite simply,
romantic' without a half-remembered flashback to Sellar and Yeatman's
three laconic pages under the heading 'Edward III: A Romantic King'.
According to their unanswerably ...
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`The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age,' by Pekka Himanen; Random House.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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