A.J. Pollard
Autore di Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Richard III Society
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Opere di A.J. Pollard
North-Eastern England During the Wars of the Roses: Lay Society, War, and Politics, 1450-1500 (1990) 8 copie
Richard III 1 copia
The Tyranny of Richard III 1 copia
Political Elites in South-West England, 1450-1500: Politics, Governance, and the Wars of the Roses (2009) — Prefazione — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Pollard, A.J.
- Nome legale
- Pollard, Anthony James
- Data di nascita
- 1941
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Attività lavorative
- Historian
- Organizzazioni
- University of Teesside
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 450
- Popolarità
- #54,506
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 44
- Preferito da
- 1
There is no contemporary description of Richard that suggests any physical deformity. One mild comment that "one shoulder was higher than the other" escalated with each mention until eventually Thomas More's history of Richard claimed that he was "little of stature, ill-featured of limbs, crook-backed, his left shoulder much higher than the right" and he continued with atrocious stories about his mother and his birth intended to create ominous portent. As Richard was killed at Bosworth in 1495 when More was a small child he had no personal knowledge of the king but his biography of Richard shows the extent of his toadying to the Tudors. His account influenced Shakespeare's play written 100 years after Richard III's death, when it was still acceptable to write unflattering accounts of the last Plantagenet king.
Written in 1997, well before the discovery of Richard's body in a parking lot in Leicester. Biographers take one side or the other but Pollard goes along with the traditional claim that he was a villain who murdered his two young nephews. Nothing I have read convinces me of his guilt.… (altro)