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Article: Richard III: A Medieval Kingship. (book reviews)
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- November 1, 1994
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* During the last two decades or so an immense number of books and articles have appeared on the history of fifteenth-century England: a flood of scholarship which has transformed its reputation from that of Stubbs' |worn-out, helpless age' to that of an epoch full of change and vitality. Writing about it has become almost a minor industry with a flourishing sub-department on Richard III. So much so that the first of these books, Richard III: A Medieval Kingship, contains no less than eight essays by well-known scholars offering diverse points of view on possibly the most controversial monarch in English history.
John Gillingham in a judicious and lively ...