A. R. Myers Article

Someone mentioned an A. R. Myers article on Richard.

I found an article titled "Richard III and Historical Traditional" online at http://online.wiley.com Is that the one?

However you do have to pay to download that article and you have to start the process of payment before you find the amount so I have not done that. Yes, you do get a chance not to finalise it, if you think it costs too much.

Helen

--- In , "sweethelly2003" <sweethelly2003@...> wrote:
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> Someone mentioned an A. R. Myers article on Richard.
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> I found an article titled "Richard III and Historical Traditional" online at http://online.wiley.com Is that the one?
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> However you do have to pay to download that article and you have to start the process of payment before you find the amount so I have not done that. Yes, you do get a chance not to finalise it, if you think it costs too much.
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> Helen
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Carol responds:

Thanks, Helen. That was me, and, yes, it's the right article. I couldn't get your link to work, but I found this link to the first page of the article:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-229X.1968.tb01217.x/abstract

I know that it was reprinted in "English Society and Government in the Fifteenth Century," edited by C. M. D. Crowder, but that book isn't available online as far as I know.

Anyway, better his approach than the Tudor perspective, but I prefer to think that Richard was both intelligent *and* good--though, certainly, he and many other people were the victims of circumstance in 1483. If only bigamist Edward had waited to die until his son was of age and the secret had never come out! Richard could have stayed in the North, remarried after his wife and son died, and been happy as Duke of Gloucester till he died in his bed at age eighty with the Yorkists still in power. Of course, Edward V would have been influenced by the Woodvilles, who might have quarreled with Hastings, and the Tydder would have taken advantage of the instability to invade, but Richard under those circumstances would probably have won the equivalent of Bosworth and become a national hero--and why am I doing this? If only!

Carol