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The fate of the princes: Cartesian anxiety and narrative closure in Thomas More’s History of Richard III

Olga Prokopis
Historical Reputation
August 4, 2026
The curious similarity between England’s last medieval king and one of the early martyrs of Henry VIII’s reign lies in their afterlives. Both King Richard III and Sir Thomas More have been claimed by disparate spaces and communities. Few Renaissance...

Who Was Shakespeare’s King Richard III?

Olga Prokopis
Historical Reputation
April 8, 2026
Sharon Turner spent fifty-three years thinking about Richard III before writing his epic poem, published only two years before his death. This was much to the chagrin of John Lingard, who complained that ‘For he is seventy-seven, and a man...

The Princes in the Urn: Why it’s Time to Let Go of the Westminster Abbey Myth

Olga Prokopis
Richard III
November 18, 2025
In 2015 the hype around DNA in Richard III’s history was still relatively new, and (like much of my work) I wrote this opinion piece out of annoyance. It seemed like suddenly DNA could solve everything and history was unimportant...
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