acts and memorable deeds of all your famous predecessor kings
This btw is what I was doing when Firefox went all splodey on me: linking you guys to Yet Another Didactic Turn-of-the-Century Children's Medieval History Book. This one is called Famous Men of the Middle Ages and was put together by a couple of New York-area educators and has a rather charming preface about the great-man theory of history.
"If the king heeds our petition, well and good. If not I am determined, cousin of York, that you shall sit on the throne of England instead of our insane sovereign."
There is also a bit about how Joan of Arc gets to be an honorary man because she was Just That Cool.
Oh, also, while we're on the subject of histories, I had occasion yesterday to refer to the Grand List of Early Modern English History Plays and while I was there decided to update it with links to as many available e-texts as I could round up. It is not right that there is an e-text of Locrine but not of Perkin Warbeck, although the availability of the former is probably due to its having been attributed to Shakespeare.
"If the king heeds our petition, well and good. If not I am determined, cousin of York, that you shall sit on the throne of England instead of our insane sovereign."
There is also a bit about how Joan of Arc gets to be an honorary man because she was Just That Cool.
Oh, also, while we're on the subject of histories, I had occasion yesterday to refer to the Grand List of Early Modern English History Plays and while I was there decided to update it with links to as many available e-texts as I could round up. It is not right that there is an e-text of Locrine but not of Perkin Warbeck, although the availability of the former is probably due to its having been attributed to Shakespeare.