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Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)

by Mark Kishlansky

Book 2 in the Penguin Monarchs series.

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Mark Kishlansky reassesses Charles I through the conflicts that destroyed his authority and brought monarchy to temporary collapse. The biography follows the king’s ideas of sacred rule, his difficult dealings with Parliament and his attempts to govern three kingdoms with different religious and political traditions.

Rather than treating the Civil War as an inevitable verdict on a uniquely incompetent monarch, the book reconstructs the choices, misunderstandings and escalating crises of Charles’s reign. It concludes with defeat, trial and execution, while asking how far his character and principles contributed to the catastrophe.

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