The Life and Times of Richard III
Author: Anthony Cheetham
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780297831679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcise account, placing the life of Richard III in its historical context
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Richard the Third
Author: Paul Murray Kendall
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 1447495470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard 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.
Richard III
Author: Chris Skidmore
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1466844116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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.
More's History of King Richard III.
Author: Saint Thomas More
Publisher:
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
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Author: Matthew Lewis
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-09-15
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 1445671557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA definitive new biography of one of British history's most controversial figures, that seeks to bring peace to Richard III's reputation.
Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA
Author: John Ashdown-Hill
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-01-16
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0752498665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, we discover a new Richard: no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively pursuing his own agenda. It also re-examines the aftermath of Bosworth: the treatment of Richard's body; his burial; and the construction of his tomb. And there is the fascinating story of why, and how, Richard III's family tree was traced until a relative was found, alive and well, in Canada. Now, with the discovery of Richard's skeleton at the Greyfrairs Priory in Leicester, England, John Ashdown-Hill explains how his book inspired the dig and completes Richard III's fascinating story, giving details of how Richard died, and how the DNA link to a living relative of the king allowed the royal body to be identified.
Richard III
Author: Charles Ross
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-05-28
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0300229747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross assesses the king within the context of his violent age and explores the critical questions of the reign: why and how Richard Plantagenet usurped the throne; the belief that he ordered the murder of "the Princes in the Tower"; the events leading to the battle of Bosworth in 1485; and the death of the Yorkist dynasty with Richard himself. In a new foreword, Professor Richard A. Griffiths identifies the attributes that have made Ross's account the leading biography in the field, and assesses the impact of the research published since the book first appeared in 1981. "A fascinating study on a perennially fascinating topic… the base against which will be measured any future research."--Times Higher Education Supplement
The Family of Richard III
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-03-15
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1445621347
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Richard III
Author: Michael Hicks
Publisher: Tempus Publishing Limited
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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'.
