The Bones of a King E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 377

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The dramatic story of Richard III, England's last medieval king, captured the world's attention when an archaeological team led by the University of Leicester identified his remains in February 2013. The Bones of a King presents the official behind-the-scenes story of the Grey Friars dig from the team of specialists who discovered and identified his remains

• The most extensive and authoritative book written for non-specialists by the expert team who discovered and analysed the remains of Richard III
• Features more than 40 illustrations, maps and photographs
• Builds an expansive view of Richard's life, death and burial, as well as accounts of the treatment of his body prior to burial, and his legacy in the public imagination from the time of his death to the present
• Explains the scientific evidence behind his identification, including DNA retrieval and sequencing, soil samples, his wounds and his scoliosis, and what they reveal about his life, his health and even the food he ate
• A behind-the-scenes look at one of the most exciting historical discoveries of our time

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Title page

Illustrations

Figures

Maps

Plates

The Greyfriars Research Team

Acknowledgements

1 Investigating the Bones of a King

2 So How Did He Get There? (RB, MM)

Imagine … A Walk in the Garden

The ‘Lost’ Friary

How It All Began

Finding the Friary

Laying the Groundwork

Where to Dig

The Search for the Friary

Excavating King Richard’s Grave

Following Up: The 2013 Excavation

Why Greyfriars?

King Henry VII’s Monument

The Epitaph

The Latin Epitaph

English translations

Further reading

3 The Bigger Picture

Imagine …

Friaries in Medieval England and Wales (DOS)

Greyfriars, Leicester (

DMO, RB, MM

)

Life in the Medieval Town (

RB, MM

)

Richard’s Arrival in Leicester, His Departure … and His Return

Further reading

4 The Bones Tell Their Tale

The Slow Reveal …

Finding a Home: Preparing for Analysis

Skeletal Analysis: Unlocking the Secrets of the Bones (

JA, GR, BM, SH, RW-S

)

The 3D Printouts

The Towton Mass Grave

Battle Wounds (

JA, R-WS, SH, GR

)

Modelling the Bones (

JA, RB, RH, BM, PM

)

Dating Richard

III

and Tracking His Life: Radiocarbon Dating and E Isotope Analysis (

RB, AL JE, JA

)

Parasites (

PM

)

Further reading

5 Who was Richard?

Imagine …

Richard’s Early Years

A Baby Comes to the Throne

A Disrupted Childhood

Time for Another Boy King?

Richard’s Accomplishments

The Last Battle

After Richard

Further reading

6 The Cousins in the Swabs (TK, KS)

The Slow Reveal …

Who is Related to Richard III?

DNA and the Identification of Richard

Tracing the Lines

Finding the Modern Relatives

The Initial DNA Results

Checking the Lines

Cousins in the Swabs

The Final DNA Results

Further reading

7 What Did Richard Look Like?

Imagine …

Representing Richard

Descriptions of Richard in Life (

SK, MAL

)

Portraits of a Long Dead King

Are the Later Paintings Based on a Lost Original?

Richard’s Head Reconstructed

Further reading

8 The Big Announcement

The Slow Reveal …

A Momentous Phone Call (

AM, PT, CV, RT

)

The Media over the Car Park

The Quiet before the Storm

Announcing the Bones

Waiting for the Results

The Big Day Dawns (

AM, PT, RB

)

Viewing the Bones

The Press Conference Begins

The Aftermath

The Morning after the Night Before and Later

Further reading

9 The Afterlife of Richard III and the City That Never Forgot

Imagine …

A Hasty Burial in a Modest Church

A City where Richard Lived on in Legend

Rethinking History (

NH, PM, ML, BWS

)

Further reading

10 Richard Laid to Rest

The Slow Reveal …

Where to Bury Richard?

When Bones are Found (

RB, MM LF

)

The Cathedral Prepares to Receive Richard

A Streetscape to Celebrate a King

A King Reburied

Further reading

Appendix 1

Close Maternal-line Relatives of Richard III

Appendix 2

The Male Line

Index

Supplemental Images

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

Chapter 02

Map 2.1 Reconstruction of the centre of Medieval Leicester.

Figure 2.1 Section of the Rous manuscript showing description of Richard III’s burial place. British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian A XII, folio 137r.

Figure 2.2 Section of medieval stone wall in New Street car park that may have belonged to the friary.

Figure 2.3 Plan of the Greyfriars excavations.

Figure 2.4 Epitaph from Richard III’s gravestone set up by Henry VII, in Ellesmere 1129 manuscript, written in Latin in late sixteenth-/early seventeenth-century secretary hand on four leaves of paper, folded into folio format. The epitaph to Richard III is the longest verse on the last page.

Chapter 03

Figure 3.1 Plan of Greyfriars friary, Walsingham.

Figure 3.2 Plan of Greyfriars friary, Carmarthen.

Figure 3.3 Section of Harley manuscript 433, showing the promise of a chantry college of 100 priests to York Minster.

Chapter 04

Figure 4.1 Diagram showing the angle of entry of the weapons used in attacking Richard III.

Chapter 05

Figure 5.1 Fotheringhay castle mound, with the church in the background.

Figure 5.2 Fotheringhay church.

Map 5.1 Key places in the Wars of the Roses.

Figure 5.3 Simplified genealogy of the families of York and Lancaster.

Map 5.2 Survey finds in the area of Bosworth.

Figure 5.4 Fotheringhay church, the monuments of Duke Richard (L) and Duke Edward (R), either side of the high altar.

Figure 5.5 Fotheringhay church, monument of Duke Edward.

Figure 5.6 Fotheringhay church, bronze tassel on Duke Edward’s original monument, underneath the Elizabethan monument.

Figure 5.7 Talbot Inn, Oundle, the staircase down which Mary Queen of Scots is said to have walked.

Chapter 06

Figure 6.1 Genealogical links between Richard III and modern-day relatives who participated in the project.

Supplemental Images

Plate 1 Thomas Roberts’s eighteenth-century map of Leicester.

Plate 2 The initial stages of the Greyfriars excavation, August 2012.

Plate 3 Greyfriars excavation, the east end of the church showing the difference in level between presbytery and choir.

Plate 4 Greyfriars excavation, Jo Appleby and Turi King excavating Skeleton 1. The anti-contamination suits they are wearing are designed to prevent modern DNA from coming into contact with the bones.

Plate 5 Greyfriars excavation, the skull emerging from the soil.

Plate 6 Greyfriars excavation, Skeleton 1 in the grave.

Plate 7 Reconstruction of medieval Leicester.1. Greyfriars Precinct 2. St Martin’s Church 3. Guildhall 4. Leicester Castle 5. The Newarke 6. St Mary de Castro7. Southern suburb 8. Austin Friars 9. Little Bow Bridge 10. Bow Bridge 11. Blackfriars 12. St Nicholas’s 13. Jewry Wall 14. Butchers’ area 15. Tanneries 16. Hot Gate 17. The medieval high street (= modern Highcross Street) 18. Blue Boar Inn 19. St Margaret’s 20. St Michael’s 21. St Peter’s

Plate 8 Scan of the spine.

Plate 9 Skeleton of Richard III.

Plate 10 Wound to the upper jaw.

Plate 11 Injuries on the dome of the skull.

Plate 12 Injury on the saggital suture of the skull.

Plate 13 Wounds to base of skull.

Plate 14 Cut injury to rib.

Plate 15 Cut injury to pelvis.

Plate 16 Vertebrae showing signs of asymmetry.

Plate 17 Memorial wall plaque to Anne, Duchess of Exeter, and Sir Thomas St Leger, in the Rutland Chantry Chapel, St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

Plate 18 Michael Ibsen and Wendy Duldig.

Plate 19 Labwork on the DNA.

Plate 20 Richard III and his wife, Anne, from the Salisbury Roll.

Plate 21 Richard III, oil on panel, English School, 1520.

Plate 22 Richard III, oil on panel, English School, sixteenth century.

Plate 23 A facial reconstruction of King Richard III, unveiled by the Richard III Society on 5 February 2013 in London, England.

Plate 24 Press conference 4 February 2013, the view from the platform.

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THE BONES OF A KING

RICHARD IIIREDISCOVERED

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Illustrations

Figures

2.1

Section of the Rous manuscript showing description of Richard III’s burial place. British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian A XII, folio 137r.