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The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck (RWS) is arguably the most famous of 20th-century Tarot decks. For decades, I’ve been using the RWS as an aid to developing fictional characters. Only recently did I notice the Death card in the Major Arcana features a skeletal knight carrying a banner on which is imprinted the White Rose of…
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THE MALIGNED RICARDIANS
“Princes”, “Tudors”, Anthony Woodville, Charles II, Earl of Essex, Earl of Southampton, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Lucy, forced loans, George Buck, Henry VI, Horace Walpole, Ireland, James VI/I, John Morton, Kincaid, Magna Carta, Mary I, Netherlands, Norfolk, Orford, Phillip II, Privy Chamber, Ralph Shaa, recusants, Richard III, Robert Cecil, Seneca, ship money, Sir Henry Neville, Sir Thomas Grey, Sir William Cornwallis, Slobodan Milosevic, Spain, The Encomium of Richard III, Thomas More, War, William CecilPart 1 – Sir William Cornwallis the younger “ His virtues I have sought to revive, his vices to excuse” (The Encomium of Richard III, Sir William Cornwallis) It is conceivable that historians do not take the early revisionist histories of king Richard III seriously owing to an assumption that the authors were not themselves…
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Originally posted on RICARDIAN LOONS: Richard III fascinates people because his story has so many profound mysteries. Take, for instance, the case of the disappeared Princes in the Tower. Or the execution of William, Lord Hastings. These two events have filled up hundreds of pages of speculation in books, have spawned endless social media threads,…
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River Ure from Worton Bridge The River Nene, flowing far away On past the castle of Fotheringhay Passing the good news away to the sea Richard Plantagenet, newborn is he Youngest son to the Duke and Duchess With joy we greet you and wish you success Chorus: Three rivers he knew Three rivers passed…
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We have posted before about the lives of noblewomen and how they were almost never executed before the “Tudor” era began – including how King Lear, featuring the death of Cordelia, reflected this changed reality. Here is as near as we can manage to a counter-example from 1003, after the St. Brice’s Day Massacre of…
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We bring you an excellent article by Susan Abernethy about the Regent of France through most of Richard’s reign. Note the different constitutional arrangements to Richard’s appointment as Lord Protector and Defender of the Realm but France adhered to a Salic Law meaning that neither Anne nor her descendants could ever reign: Anne de Beaujeu,…
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These are generally quite obscure but can be very useful: http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/12/five-medieval-chronicles-that-you-can-read-translated-online/
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So, let us say you find that time machine and go back to Richard III’s era, and you are going to dine with him. How do people act? What should you expect? In old 1950’s movies we see neat and tidy castles and perfectly coiffed people cavorting merrily between trestle tables and dancing in stately…
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This piece by Phillippe Starck is described as “An armchair and a conversation piece, Richard III is a creative personification of Shakespeare’s character, much like the controversial reign of King Richard III, the intriguing design and meticulous realization of the armchair is heavily centered on duality and paradox of its namesake; traditional vs. modern, concave…
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Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Following on from my recent post about the reception of the Agincourt campaign by later generations and the associated ‘myth-making’ which has informed our view of those events, I wanted to look at the character of the central figure in Shakespeare’s play and compare and contrast it with the ‘real’ Henry in…
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