Kamen challenges several myths about Philip. His lively and well-written account is solidly grounded in extensive archival research. He succeeds in his goals of bringing Philip alive to nonspecialists and of understanding the monarch and his policies from Philip’s own perspective.
Nevertheless, Kamen makes good use of recent literature and thus provides an updated study of the monarch. Kamen’s claim is somewhat exaggerated given that many of his sources are not new and that there have been other comprehensive biographies of Philip (Peter Pierson, Geoffrey Parker). In this new biography of Philip II, Henry Kamen claims to have written the “first full-length and fully researched biography of the king ever written,” with the use of “entirely new manuscript sources” (p.
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