Absorbing. What Barber sets out to do, with subtle insight and fine scholarship, is to restore Edward to a moment of his own. Helen Castor, THE TIMES
Barber has an infectious passion for and deep knowledge of his subject matter … elegant prose
and rigorous historical analysis Dan Jones, SUNDAY TIMES
The kind of book that the king would have enjoyed: full of battles, glitter and ceremony … he has an original eye and an elegant pen Jonathan Sumption, LITERARY REVIEW
Barber shares his hero’s love of chivalry … The book sparkles with some of Edward’s own glitz.
Nigel Jones, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Richard Barber is one of the great authorities on the medieval period, and his great canon of work has enormously enriched our understanding of that distant age ALISON WEIR
