"The injury appears to confirm contemporary accounts that he died in close combat in the thick of the battle and unhorsed – as in the great despairing cry Shakespeare gives him: 'A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!'"
Maev Kennedy in The Guardian reports the confirmation of the discovery of Richard III's remains in Leicester, England.
Monday, February 04, 2013
The Winter of His Disinterment
Labels:
1480s,
2010s,
archaeology,
Britain,
fifteenth century,
history,
medieval,
Plantagenets,
Shakespeare,
Tudors
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