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Some more news about the Leicester church (the Newarke) to which Richard’s body was taken after Bosworth. You have to look for it in the following article, but it is there. http://www.dmu.ac.uk/…/two-more-dmu-buildings-are-placed-on… And as we of the 21st century, gaze back to that sad time, perhaps we can imagine the ghostly battle taking place again, in…
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Is anyone out there hot on chivalric mottos? Everyone knows Richard III’s motto, “Loyaulte mie lie”, and we even know of more he used, but it’s not so easy to find other mottos belonging to lesser known English figures of the 14th-century. Well, one gentleman in particular. I am trying to discover what “Rendere Vero”.…
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Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: The common thread that runs through Anglo-Saxon poetry like the golden coils of a Sutton Hoo serpent is the nostalgic pain of longing for lost things. Again and again the same phrases are spoken in ‘Beowulf’ and in poems like ‘The Seafarer’ and ‘The Wanderer’. It feels as if one were…
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For those Ricardians who like country-house murder mysteries, here’s one with a Ricardian theme. Mixed reviews, but I don’t think it’s anti-Richard. It was originally written in 1974, so apparently shows its age a little. But then, don’t we all? <g> The Amazon link wouldn’t work properly, so here’s a TinyURl: http://tinyurl.com/hw4u2fh
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(by Annette Carson) On the matter of sources that are usually cited for the origin of Richard III’s blackened reputation, it occurs to me that I’ve done quite a lot of reading lately around Thomas More’s influential Richard III, which means I have been delving more deeply into the analyses published in the Appendix to…
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No justice for Richard twenty-five years ago, when his magnificent statue got the rough treatment from louts. I’d love to think he ‘came to life’ and rammed that sword where their sun don’t shine!
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Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: The Viking settlement at Jorvik, modern day York, is the largest excavated Viking site in England. Jorvik was an important trading centre due to its river links along the Ouse to the Humber estuary and North Sea and also an important political centre, the largest of the of the six fortified Viking…
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John Guy on More …
“Tudor” justice, Anne Boleyn, biographies, Cambridge, David Starkey, executions, G.R. Elton, Henry VIII, Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford, John Guy, John Paul II, John the Baptist, Katherine Howard, Lord Chancellor, Margaret Roper, National Archives, Robert Bolt, saints, Salome, Stalin, Thomas More, treason… or how a Lord Chancellor fell victim to the King he idolised and one historian stayed loyal to his mentor but another didn’t: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/tudor-terror-john-guy-is-on-a-mission-to-bring-history-to-the-masses-876441.html
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Usurpation, Murder and More
“Princes”, “Tudor” “sources”, Angelo Cato, Croyland, denialists, Dighton, Edmund Dudley, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jack Leslau, John Morton, John Russell, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XI, Mancini, Miles Forest, Polydore Vergil, pre-contract, Ralph Shaa, Richard Empson, Richard III, Royal College of Arms, Sir James Tyrrell, Sir Richard Grey, Thomas More, Utopia
Originally posted on Matt's History Blog: I read a series of blog posts recently that sought to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Richard III ordered the deaths of his nephews. Whilst I don’t take issue with holding and arguing this viewpoint I found some of the uses of source material dubious, a few of…
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… his name was Rouse. He had the key to every house. He was suspected and then arrested …” (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjU_ZWEjZvKAhUJ1h4KHfbYBp0QFgggMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fopus.lingfil.uu.se%2FOpenSubtitles2012%2Fxml%2Fen%2F2005%2F20551%2F3099498_1of1.xml.gz&usg=AFQjCNF57cSMby7R2qZUHshq9kvRA28kXA&sig2=RZ7d8jSa-bulSdyeXFoUYg) Alfred Arthur Rouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Rouse) was an ostensibly happily married commercial traveller, to Lily May Watkins, when in London. In other regions, he was a bachelor or occasionally “married” to a different woman. To end his…
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