Richard III
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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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Being half Welsh (and proud of it!) but also a Ricardian through and through, I don’t know whether to watch this with huge interest…or bare my teeth. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-history-suffers-teaching-being-10400295 The programme should have English subtitles.
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JANE SHORE—TART WITH A HEART?
“withered arm”, adultery, Alice Perrers, Arthur “Tudor”, Catherine de Roet, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Hastings, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Jane Shore, Ludgate, Ludlow, mistresses, More, Ralph Holinshed, Richard III, Rosamund Clifford, Shakespeare, sorcery, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas LynomMedieval mistresses seem to get a raw deal from most contemporary and near-contemporary chroniclers, being seen as falling ‘outside the accepted norm’ in regards to sexual mores. Prim Victorian authors also enjoyed making moral judgments on them, and even modern historians, while less interested in the prurient details, often paint them as scheming she-wolves or…
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Revisiting Azincourt – 600 years of myth making.
1475 invasion of France, Azincourt, Catherine de Valois, Crecy, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward of Norwich, Edward the Black Prince, France, Harfleur, Henry V, Laurence Olivier, Louis XI, Margaret of Anjou, Myths, Poitiers, propaganda, Richard III, Shakespeare, Spain, St. crispin, St. George, St. george’s Chapel, Tewkesbury, Tower of LondonOriginally posted on Giaconda's Blog: King Henry Vth ‘O for pity!–we shall much disgrace With four or five most vile and ragged foils, Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous, The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see, Minding true things by what their mockeries be.’ I have always been fascinated by the battle of Azincourt since…
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https://e-royalty.com/featured-articles/the-first-great-english-poetry/ Geoffrey Chaucer, having married Phillippa de Roet, was to be Richard III’s great-great uncle by marriage. He was also the grandfather-in-law of Richard’s sister, Elizabeth. James I married Joan Beaufort, Chaucer’s niece, the cousin of Richard’s paternal grandfather.
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http://www.lumiere-festival.com/durham-2015/ Durham’s Lumiere festival will be taking place on November 12-15. It is Britain’s largest light festival. Most impressive perhaps is the illumination of the great cathedral on its eminent position above the river, in which medieval images are projected upon the ancient stonework and towers. Durham was well-known to Richard III; he and his…
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Anti-Ricardians often partly justify their dislike of Richard III on account of his unattractive crown-hunger, claiming that he was always desperate to be king, spent his life plotting to this end and ruthlessly eliminating anyone who stood in his way, and cite as proof the prompt “usurpation” of his nephew Edward V in 1483. I’ve…
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We start with Dafydd Gam (c.1380-1415), who fought against the Glyn Dwr rebellion at the beginning of the fifteenth century, apparently trying to assassinate the leading rebel and being imprisoned by him. He may have saved Henry V’s life at Azincourt but was definitely killed there. His daughter, Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, married twice and…
