The Most Insane Historical Rulers - Kindle Non-Fiction

The Most Insane Historical Rulers: Top Mad and Crazy Rulers from BCE to 20th century 
by Benjamin J. Brown and K.L Morgan

Blame whatever you want - the divine right of kings, centuries of inbreeding, hereditary strains of mental illness, traumatic episodes or plain old bad luck. The history of the world does not lack its helping of mad monarchs and insane rulers who caused subjects to tremble with fear at every turn, or were comparatively harmless and even childlike but incapable of ruling a realm. Today those suffering with mental illness or have loved ones who are can seek treatment. Not the case long ago, when even the most inept of monarchs were sometimes too powerful to be checked.

It might be difficult to students of history to sympathize with Caliph al-Hakim, who murdered advisors on a whim, or Countess Erzsebet who felt her beauty fading and began murdering her youthful servants; however, every good student of history knows context is important. Mustafa I of the Ottoman Empire, after all, spent 14 years in a cage at his own brother’s request, which goes a long way in explaining his actions, rendering them more understandable with context.

This book will look at the lives and times of twenty insane rulers; from warlords to emperors, queens to military commanders, they have displayed unique capacities for sadism, cruelty and in some cases, genuine madness and insanity.

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