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Author : Alison Hanham
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Richard III and His Early Historians, 1483-1535 written by Alison Hanham and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annette Carson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075247314X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Richard III: The Maligned King written by Annette Carson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485, made good laws that still protect ordinary people today. Yet history concentrates on the fictional hunchback as depicted by Shakespeare: the wicked uncle who stole the throne and killed his nephews in the Tower of London. Voices have protested during the intervening years, some of them eminent and scholarly, urging a more reasoned view to replace the traditional black portrait. But historians, whether as authors or presenters of popular TV history, still trot out the old pronouncements about ruthless ambition, usurpation and murder. After centuries of misinformation, the truth about Richard III has been overdue a fair hearing. Annette Carson seeks to redress the balance by examining the events of his reign as they actually happened, based on reports in the original sources. She traces the actions and activities of the principal characters, investigating facts and timelines revealed in documentary evidence. She also dares to investigate areas where historians fear to tread, and raises some controversial questions. In 2012 Carson was a member of Philippa Langley's Looking For Richard Project, which provided important new answers from the DNA-confirmed discovery of the king's remains. Her involvement in Langley's Missing Princes Project, with its international research initiative on the 'princes in the Tower', has now informed her revelatory extra chapter.
Author : John Ashdown-Hill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445644738
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Mythology of Richard III written by John Ashdown-Hill and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ashdown-Hill, whose research was instrumental in the discovery of Richard III’s remains, explores and unravels the web of myths around Richard III.
Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671557
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Richard III written by Matthew Lewis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive new biography of one of British history's most controversial figures, that seeks to bring peace to Richard III's reputation.
Author : Phil Bradford
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399083082
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Worst Medieval Monarchs written by Phil Bradford and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England’s medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were not success stories. Two of these kings lost their thrones, one only avoided doing so by dying, another was killed in battle, and the remaining one had to leave his crown to his opponent. All have been seen as incompetent, their reigns blighted by civil war and conflict. They tore the realm apart, failing in the basic duty of a king to ensure peace and justice. For that, all of them paid a heavy price. As well as incompetence, some also have reputations for cruelty and villainy, More than one has been portrayed as a tyrant. The murder of family members and arbitrary executions stain their reputations. All five reigns ended in failure. As a result, the kings have been seen as failures themselves, the worst examples of medieval English kingship. They lost their reputations as well as their crowns. Yet were these five really the worst men to wear the crown of England in the Middle Ages? Or has history treated them unfairly? This book looks at the stories of their lives and reigns, all of which were dramatic and often unpredictable. It then examines how they have been seen since their deaths, the ways their reputations have been shaped across the centuries. The standards of their own age were different to our own. How these kings have been judged has changed over time, sometimes dramatically. Fiction, from Shakespeare’s plays to modern films, has also played its part in creating the modern picture. Many things have created, over a long period, the negative reputations of these five. Today, they have come to number among the worst kings of English history. Is this fair, or should they be redeemed? That is the question this book sets out to answer.
Author : Hazel Pierce
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783163038
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541 written by Hazel Pierce and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1473, Margaret Pole was the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, and the only woman, apart from Anne Boleyn, to hold a peerage title in her own right during the sixteenth century. After being restored by Henry VIII to the earldom of Salisbury in 1512, her deep Catholic convictions were increasingly out of favour with Henry and she was executed on a charge of treason in 1541. In 1886, Margaret Pole was among sixty-three martyrs beatified by Pope Leo XIII for not hesitating 'to lay down their lives by the shedding of their blood' for the dignity of the Holy See. In this first biography of a significant female figure in the male-dominated world of Tudor politics, Hazel Pierce presents the life and culture of this propertied titled lady against the social and political background of late Yorkist and early Tudor Britain.
Author : V.B. Lamb
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750963328
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Betrayal of Richard III written by V.B. Lamb and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work, Peter Hammond and the late V.B. Lamb survey the life and times of Richard III and examine the contemporary evidence for the events of his reign, tracing the origins of the traditional version of his career as a murderous tyrant and its development since his death. The evident grief of the citizens of York on hearing of the death of Richard III — recording in the Council Minutes that he had been 'piteously slane and murdered to the Grete hevynesse of this citie' — is hardly consistent with the view of the archetypal wicked uncle who murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and there is an extraordinary discrepancy between this monster and the man as he is revealed by contemporary records. An ideal introduction to one of the greatest mysteries of English history, this new edition is revised by Peter Hammond and includes an introduction and notes.
Author : Ralf Hertel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317050797
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play written by Ralf Hertel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604137193
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Richard III written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume in the ""Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages"" series contains the finest criticism on a particular work from the Bard's oeuvre, selected under the guidance of renowned Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom. Providing invaluable study guides, this comprehensive collection sheds light on how our relationship with the works of Shakespeare has evolved through the ages. Each title features: a selection of the best criticism on the work through the centuries; introductory essays on the development of criticism on the work in each century; a brief biography of Shakespeare; a plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages; and, an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Author : Susanna Fellman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144383484X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Historical Knowledge written by Susanna Fellman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Knowledge approaches the topic of historical knowledge in depth and from various angles. It seeks to offer theoretical and methodological building blocks for the use of anyone pursuing historical research. This book brings novel insights into classic and topical issues currently under debate: the importance of theory in historical thinking, the dialectic of “text” and “annotation”, the actor and observer levels, the relationship between the general and the individual, the issue of comparison, and the problem of sporadic sources and of understanding the singularity of each one. The overall theme of the book, the possibility of historical knowledge, reflects the very issue that makes historical research distinctive: the challenges of evidence and the problems, both concrete and conceptual, with deciphering and interpreting remnants of the past. This book refreshes the discussion about sources and proper evidence, two issues that the linguistic turn and the postmodern challenge pushed into the background. The book addresses these issues in an easily accessible way and serves as an introduction and guide to the role of theory, method and evidence in historical research not only for students and scholars of history, but also for anyone outside the field with an interest in the topic. Historical Knowledge is the first book to include texts by the three eminent historians, Professors Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg and Giovanni Levi. The other contributors, Professors Risto Alapuro, Janken Myrdal and Matti Peltonen, are active debaters in current theoretical and methodo-logical discussion.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1793 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular Knights of the Garter written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha W. Driver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491655
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Martha W. Driver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.
Author : Keith Dockray
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians written by Keith Dockray and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Dockray
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 : 1781553335
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records written by Keith Dockray and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most controversial ruler England has ever had. Vilified by critics as a ruthless master of intrigue and a callous murderer, he has been no less extravagantly praised by defenders of his reputation against Tudor and Shakespearian charges of tyranny. Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records, by its presentation of contemporary and near contemporary sources, enables the reader to get behind the mythology and gain a more realistic picture of the king. An invaluable collection of the primary sources presented clearly and concisely, it demonstrates just why Richard has remained an enigma for so long. Established as an essential part of the literature on Richard III since its first publication under the title Richard III: A Reader in History, this new edition has been completely revised and considerably expanded to offer an indispensable source book for historians, students and the general reader. Also, this up to date edition includes a chapter in relation to the exciting discovery of Richard III's skeleton that was found under a car park in Leicester. The Genesis of this book came from a summary guide produced by Keith Dockray for all of his second year undergraduate students. Upon this foundation has been built an accessible and enjoyable history of this fascinating king, as seen by those who knew him at the time, or who were living shortly after his untimely death at Bosworth Field.
Author : Travis Curtright
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813219957
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The One Thomas More written by Travis Curtright and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The One More Thomas More' studies the central humanist and polemical texts written by More to illustrate a coherent development of thought. Focusing on three major works from More's humanist phase, 'The Life of Pico', 'The History of Richard III', and 'Utopia', Curtright demonstrates More's idea of humanitas and his corresponding programme of moderate political reform.
Author : Allen Boyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003846130
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History written by Allen Boyer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this worst of crimes. It explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book. This book also considers why treason as both a word and a concept remains so potent in wider modern culture, investigating prevalent current misconceptions about what is and what is not treason. It concludes by suggesting that the abolition or 'death' of treason in the near future, while a logical next step, is by no means a foregone conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408143143
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book King Richard III written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this villain to audiences and focuses on how beguiling, even funny, he can be, especially in the earlier parts of the play. Siemon also places King Richard III in its historical context; as Elizabeth I had no heirs the issue of succession was a very real one for Shakespeare's audience. The introduction is well-illustrated and provides a comprehensive account of the play and of critical approaches to it. The edition also provides a clear and authoritative playtext, edited to the most rigorous standards of scholarship, with detailed notes and commentary on the same page. With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary the Arden Shakespeare is the finest edition of Shakespeare you can find, giving a deeper understanding and appreciation of his work.
