| Richard III Contributor(s): Horrox, Rosemary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0141978937 ISBN-13: 9780141978932 Publisher: Allen Lane OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Western Europe - General - Biography & Autobiography | Royalty |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2020438972 |
| Series: Penguin Monarchs |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.8" W x 7.2" (0.80 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III. He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers. In this enlightening, even-handed study, Rosemary Horrox builds a complex picture of a king who by any standard failed as a monarch. He was killed after only two years on the throne, without an heir, and brought such a decisive end to the House of York that Henry Tudor was able to seize the throne, despite his extremely tenuous claim. Whether Richard was undone by his own fierce ambitions, or by the legacy of a Yorkist dynasty which was already profoundly dysfunctional, the end result was the same: Richard III destroyed the very dynasty that he had spent his life so passionately defending. |