Richard III and the Murder in the Tower

Name: Richard III and the Murder in the Tower
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter A. Hancock
ISBN: 9781541475878

Author: Peter A. Hancock

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/29/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, European History

Synopsis

Since Tudor times Richard III has been painted as the "black legend," the murderous uncle—however, the truth is much more complicated and interesting.

Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews, the "Princes in the Tower," in order to usurp the throne of England, but this book tells a different story. Rather than looking at all the killings Richard III did not commit, this account focuses on the one judicial murder for which we know that he was responsible. On June 13, 1483, William, Lord Hastings was hustled from a meeting of the Royal Council and summarily executed on Tower Green within the confines of the Tower of London. This book sheds light on the mystery of this precipitate and unadvised action by the then Duke of Gloucester and reveals the key role of William Catesby in Richard's ascent to the throne of England. It explains his curious actions during that tumultuous summer of three kings and provides an explanation for the fate of the "Princes in the Tower."

About Peter A. Hancock

Peter A. Hancock is Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Performance Under Stress; Mind, Machine and Morality; and Hoax Springs Eternal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joan

Review of Richard III and the Murder in the Tower by Peter A. Hancock. One of the issues I have thought both puzzling and key to the events surrounding Richard, Duke of Gloucester’s actions as Protector to Edward V on June 13, 1483 was his summary execution of William Hastings--an execution delivered......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

Informative and interesting!! Peter Hancock goes outside the normal "murder" in the tower, to look at one that we know for sure did happen. The beheading of Lord Hastings during the council meeting in June 1483 was one that took everyone by surprise. He and Richard were friends. They had shared exile......more

Goodreads review by Blair

This book attempts to shed light not on the murder of the princes in the Tower, as the title might be reasonably expected to suggest, but rather on the execution of Hastings. This is all well and good, but as the author asserts several times, the evidence for why Richard executed Hastings so swiftly......more

Goodreads review by Gaele

AudioBook Review Stars: Overall 4 Narration 5 Story 4 Familiar with the story of the young Princes in the tower, conventional wisdom states that Richard III was the engineer of their demise. Hancock however, finds that the clear evidence that could definitively state that Richard, commonly known as......more

Goodreads review by Gilda

A fascinating and informative book, it takes on this little discussed execution and turns it on its head (no pun intended.) Normally, either the writer glosses over the execution, or uses it as further reason to damn Richard. But this author dug deeper. Step by step, the reader is led through every......more