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It took a particular genius and a great deal of luck to make war pay, and Richard had neither.

— Laura Ashe Richard II: A Brittle Glory (2016)

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Being thought to be untrustworthy is no better – indeed in political terms much worse – than actually being untrustworthy.

Richard II: A Brittle Glory (2016)

Richard’s will was sovereign, and yet it could not be trusted not to change. He had demonstrated that he would erase history, change the statutes of the realm, rather than remit his desires.

Richard II: A Brittle Glory (2016)

The Londoners’ faithful love and their money were both important to Richard; unfortunately he sought the latter at the expense of the former, while imagining them to be the same thing.

Richard II: A Brittle Glory (2016)

This kind of moral analysis is characteristic of medieval thought: the aim is to condemn where condemnation is due, but to salvage from the criticism the ideals which animate and support society.

Richard II: A Brittle Glory (2016)

Here and throughout the reign, the tendency was to focus criticism on particular individuals charged with corruption, rather than to address the structures which made such corruption endemic.

Richard II: A Brittle Glory (2016)

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