Anne, Queen of Richard III

by James Gairdner

Overview

A short biography of Anne, Queen of Richard III of England.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016393445
Publisher:	Shamrock Eden Publishing
Publication date:	02/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	63 KB

About the Author

James Gairdner (22 March 1828 – 4 November 1912) was a British historian. He specialised in 15th-century and early Tudor history, and among other tasks edited the Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII series.Gairdner's reputation as a specialist in the fifteenth century was such that all the widely read late-Victorian authors of general histories of England - Green, Stubbs, Ramsay, Oman - took their cue from him. In the 1930s he was still being described as the chief modem authority on Richard's reign. But, to a revisionist, Gairdner's work 'reveals an historian of great eminence, integrity and industry desperately wrestling in public to reconcile the opposing forces of his scholarly conscientiousness and his emotional predispositions.' Starting with a closed tradition instead of an open mind, Gairdner set out to maintain the essential validity of a myth which had been exposed for what it was by the new sources and research available to him.