Richard III, England's most controversial king, by Chris Skidmore
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Label
Richard III, England's most controversial king, by Chris Skidmore
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
genealogical tablesmapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Richard III
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
983561986
Responsibility statement
by Chris Skidmore
Sub title
England's most controversial king
Summary
"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 is his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot reignited debate over the true character of England's most controversial king. Richard was born in 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 in 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"--Back cover
resource.variantTitle
Richard the ThirdEngland's most controversial king