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Автор: Horrox, Rosemary
Название: Richard III (Penguin Monarchs): A Failed King?
ISBN: 0141978937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141978932
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 13190.00 T
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Описание: No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the years since, more than Richard III. He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare, villainous and hunchbacked. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers, who saw him as a victim of circumstance, backed into a corner by his brother's in-laws, the self-aggrandizing Woodville family.

In this enlightening, even-handed study, Rosemary Horrox builds a complex picture of a king who by any standard metric failed as a monarch. He was killed after only two years on the throne, without an heir, and brought such a decisive end to the House of York that Henry Tudor was able to seize the throne, despite his extremely tenuous claim. Whether Richard was undone by his own fierce ambition, or by the legacy of a Yorkist dynasty which was already profoundly dysfunctional, the end result was the same: Richard III destroyed the very dynasty which he had spent his life so passionately defending.

Автор: Horrox Rosemary, Rees Jones Sarah
Название: Pragmatic Utopias
ISBN: 0521650607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521650601
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Цена: 95040.00 T
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Описание: Spanning the artificial divide between medieval and early modern, these essays show how men and women tried to put their ideals into practice, sometimes alone, but more commonly in the shared environment of cloister, college or city. The volume will be welcomed by all scholars of pre-modern religion and society.