The mythology of Richard III /
Richard III. The name will conjure an image for any reader. Shakespeare's hunchback tyrant who killed his own nephews or a long-denigrated, misunderstood king. This one man's character and actions have divided historians and the controversy has always kept interest in Richard alive. Howeve...
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Stroud, Gloucestershire :
Amberley Publishing,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: The geography of Richard III; York
- or Leicester
- or...?
- Part 2: The path to the throne: Richard, the abnormal prince
- Sorcery and supernatural
- Richard, the serial killer
- Part 3: Richard's religion: Catholic or Anglican?
- Part 4: The monster king: Richard, the usurper
- Richard, the tyrant
- Marriage mythology
- Part 5: Legends of Richard's last days: The inn and the bed
- The white horse and the sleepless night
- The Last Mass and the last battle
- Part 6: Richard III's dead body: Burial myths
- The body in the river
- The mytholofy of rediscoavery
- The DNA link
- Part 7: Kudos, fantasies and profit: The post-2012 Leiscester edition of Richard III
- Images
- The tourist trade
- Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Potential candidates for identity with the Leicester Greyfriars bones
- Appendix 2: The Plantagenet Y-chromosome (email correspndence between the author and Dr Turi King of the University of Leicester, September 2012)
- Appendix 3: Suggested amendments proposed by the Lokking for Richard Project Team to the article 'The King in the Car Park', as published in the journal Anitquity
- Appendix 4: Correspondence with the editor of Antiquity regarding the amendments proposed in Appendix 3 (above)
- Appendix 5: Misleading interpretations from Leicester.