Bibliograph

Richard III, England's most controversial king, by Chris Skidmore

Type

Label

Richard III, England's most controversial king, by Chris Skidmore

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

genealogical tablesillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Richard III

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

983561986

Responsibility statement

by Chris Skidmore

Sub title

England's most controversial king

Summary

"Richard III is one of English history?s best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked murderer, the discovery in 2012 of his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot re-ignited debate over the true character of England?s most controversial king. Richard was born into an age of brutality, when civil war gripped the land and the Yorkist dynasty clung to the crown with their fingertips. Was he really a power-crazed monster who killed his nephews, or the victim of the first political smear campaign conducted by the Tudors? In the first full biography of Richard III for fifty years, Chris Skidmore draws on new manuscript evidence to reassess Richard?s life and times. Richard III examines in intense detail Richard?s inner nature and his complex relations with those around him to unravel the mystery of the last English monarch to die on the battlefield." -- Amazon.com

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Richard the Third

Classification