Book Description
Concise account, placing the life of Richard III in its historical context
Author : Anthony Cheetham
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780297831679
Concise account, placing the life of Richard III in its historical context
Author : Anthony Cheetham
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Paul Murray Kendall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1447495470
Richard III (2 October 1452 - 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England. He is the subject of the fictional historical play Richard III by William Shakespeare. In 2012, an archaeological excavation was conducted on a city council car park using ground-penetrating radar on the site once occupied by Greyfriars, Leicester. The University of Leicester confirmed on 4 February 2013 that the skeleton found in the excavation is that of Richard III, based on the results of radiocarbon dating, a comparison with contemporary reports of his appearance, and a comparison of his mitochondrial DNA with that of two matrilineal descendants of Richard III's eldest sister, Anne of York.
Author : Chris Skidmore
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466844116
From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England’s most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain. Richard III is one of English history’s best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked murderer, the discovery in 2012 of his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot re-ignited debate over the true character of England’s most controversial king. Richard was born into an age of brutality, when civil war gripped the land and the Yorkist dynasty clung to the crown with their fingertips. Was he really a power-crazed monster who killed his nephews, or the victim of the first political smear campaign conducted by the Tudors? In the first full biography of Richard III for fifty years, Chris Skidmore draws on new manuscript evidence to reassess Richard’s life and times. Richard III examines in intense detail Richard’s inner nature and his complex relations with those around him to unravel the mystery of the last English monarch to die on the battlefield.
Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445671557
A definitive new biography of one of British history's most controversial figures, that seeks to bring peace to Richard III's reputation.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 1891
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Author : Saint Thomas More
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 1883
Category :
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Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445621347
Richard's family was his making and undoing...
Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : Tempus Publishing Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The remit of this book is to investigate whether Richard III really was a ruthless murderer or merely a victim of bad public opinion and propaganda. Michael Hicks discusses Richard's reputation and uses contemporary sources to strip away the propaganda of the centuries to rescue Richard from his critics and supporters alike'.
Author : David Hipshon
Publisher : History Press (SC)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A major reassessment of Richard III's defeat in the Battle of Bosworth. The author argues that Richard's defeat was due not to a lack of support, but rather to his involvement with the power struggle between the Stanleys and the Harringtons.