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Article: The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety and Prayer in the North of England.(Review) (book reviews)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 1999
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The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety and Prayer in the North of England. By Jonathan Hughes, with a foreward by Jeremy Catto. (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997. Pp. xiv, 209. $72.00.)
Richard III is easily the most controversial figure in medieval English history. Viewed by some as the very embodiment of evil, Shakespeare's "wretched, bloody, and usurping boar," he is seen by others as an amoral but brilliant Machiavellian, while still other historians and laypeople labor to rehabilitate his image, tarnished, they would say, by false Tudor propaganda. Jonathan Hughes does not set out so much to rehabilitate Richard as to contextualize ...