Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation - David Horspool

[denorios]

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[brunettepet]

This sounds like a riveting, well balanced read *bookmarks*

[angevin2]

What is perhaps more interesting, as Horspool explores in his final chapter, is that 'the history has not changed very much as a consequence of the discovery, but the perception of Richard may have done'.I dunno, I feel like the Ricardians had pretty much won the battle of public opinion long before his bones were recovered -- I've found the idea that More and then Shakespeare did a Tudor-propagandist hatchet job on Good and-Not-at-All-Disabled King Richard had a lot of currency well before 2012. The impression I got after the discovery of the bones was more that it somehow proved that the Richard III Society was right about everything because they sponsored the dig and then...received divine approval of their mission, or something? I dunno. I've always been sort of a Richard III agnostic and in my experience -- I admit I have weird friends -- expressing any sort of negative opinion about historical!Richard will get you shouted down with a long string of remarks about how awful Henry VII was (forget Jimmy Carter, it's Henry VII who is

[scripsi]

Sounds interesting!