Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights

by K.B. McFarlane

Genres: History

261 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Mike Luoma · Rating 3 out of 5]

This thin volume provides us with more of the edited transcripts of Bruce McFarlane's lectures. The biographical sketch of Henry V is brief; that of his father Henry IV much more detailed - indeed, it was one of the first biographical portraits of Henry IV in modern times. Both of these are entertaining and informative - indeed, I learned a great deal about Henry IV I didn't know.

The book's second half, on the Lollard Knights, is a bit of a slog and suffers from the same exhaustive detail and dry listing of facts that plagued McFarlane's John Wycliffe and.... As the second half was a lecture series for students already familiar with the period, there are also assumptions of knowledge that leave gaps for the less-informed.

Rated as "Liked It" for the first half more than the second, but both were educational.