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Richard III was the last English king to be killed in battle. [149] Henry Tudor succeeded Richard as King Henry VII. He married the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth of York, Edward IV's daughter and Richard III's niece. Richard III's grave in 2013
[81] [82] The first complete English translation of La Gerusalemme liberata, by Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595). [83] The work is a reinvention of the First Crusade, with Godfrey of Bouillon lionized as the ideal military leader, using both the 1464 work of Benedetto Accolti , [ 84 ] De Bello a Christianis contra Barbaros, and other ...
The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking, cury from Old French queuerie, 'cookery') [2] is an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes.Although the original manuscript is lost, the text appears in nine manuscripts, the most famous in the form of a scroll with a headnote citing it as the work of "the chief Master Cooks of King Richard II".
He left in 1483 and wrote a report of what he had witnessed, titling his text De Occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium ('The Occupation of the Throne of England by Richard III'). [1] The account is a major source of information about the period, but it remained lost until rediscovered in 1934 in the Municipal Library of Lille , France ...
It was written by someone who had access to information from the court of Richard III—described as being a doctor of canon law and member of Edward IV's council. Some historians believe that author was John Russell, Bishop of Lincoln, who was Richard's Lord Chancellor for most of his reign (until Richard dismissed him on 24 July 1485). Others ...
LONDON — Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with the Shakespeare line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.”. Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have ...
Beowulf and the Finnesburg fragment: a translation into modern English prose (1940). [248] Translated with an introducation and notes by John R. Clark Hall. New edition revised by Charles Leslie Wrenn (1895–1969) and prefatory notes by J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973). The text translated is that of Fr. Klaeber. List of translations of Beowulf ...
Includes a biographical sketch of Cædmon and the Junius ms. and a translation of the Old English poem Genesis here ascribed to Cædmon. Translation of the Old English Exodus (1903). By William Savage Johnson (1877–1942). In the Journal of English and Germanic philology, [28] V (1903–1905), pp. 44–57. The Holy Rood, a dream (1866).