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" History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third : "
James Gairdner.
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BL
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680662
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b502851
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Gairdner, James,1828-1912
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History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third : : To which is Added the Story of Perkin Warbeck from Original Documents /\ James Gairdner.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press.
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Place of publication not identified :: publisher not identified,, 1898.
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Cambridge library collection. British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries.
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1 online resource (412 pages) :: digital, PDF file(s)
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9780511696831 (ebook)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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| Abstract
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No English king has been the subject of more heated debate than Richard III. In this 1898 revised edition of his classic biography, Gairdner attempts to produce a more balanced analysis of the sources than most earlier writers. While largely accepting the anti-Yorkist position shown by Thomas More and Shakespeare, he does reject some of the crimes attributed to Richard, such as the murder of his brother George, Duke of Clarence. He states at the outset that Richard was not a monster but the product of his times, when violence and ruthlessness were common political weapons. He also offers a more rounded picture of the king, showing good points as well as bad, rather than a caricature of evil. The most significant addition to this edition is the substantial appendix on the imposture of Perkin Warbeck, making use of continental sources hitherto unknown to English historians.
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Richard, III,1452-1485.
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Warbeck, Perkin,1474-1499.
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Pretenders to the throne-- Great Britain, Biography.
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Great Britain, History, Richard III, 1483-1485.
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History of the Life & Reign of Richard the Third.
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