Reviews for Richard III

The average rating for Richard III based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-02 00:00:00 Elvis Vera Interesting if you are fixated on Richard III. A lot of the book is written in Old English and takes time to decipher e.g. We wolle & charge you to deliver unto the bringere hereof... However, that said, it's a good book with some remarkable pictures.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-13 00:00:00 Marvin Blanco I bought this book over ten years ago. I was taking a class with the author, Professor Horrox, about the English nobility in the late middle ages and quite into Ricardian studies at the time - so this book combined the two topics ideally. Horrox specialises in studying the medieval nobility, and in this book collects and analyses the relationship of the nobility with Richard III (a first chapter looks at the period before 1483, but the main part is about the period of his rule). She looks at how Richard dealt out his patronage, who received what, and with what effect, to show how Richard tried - and failed - to create a power-base that allowed him to hold the whole of the country as he had so efficiently done as his brother's steward in the north. Star-rating is a bit difficult here, as 'liking' isn't really a criterion for a scholarly book. The academic merit and quality of the research done here are no doubt five stars, but it's a book you read to study, not for entertainment, and I wouldn't go as far as to say it swept me off my feet, which is my interpretation of 'amazing'. (It also presupposes knowledge of historical background and terminology, and even as a historian myself, I found the medieval legal terms difficult.)