![]() ![]() ![]() Since the 1970's medievalists have consistently found that the data disproves much of the negative history. Over time, the orthodox position became "bad son, bad husband, bad king." Later historians would echo these criticisms and add unfounded rumors of their own. Unfortunately, revisionist historians beginning in the eighteenth century - including Hume and Gibbon - judged him harshly by the standards of their own eras. ![]() Admired or envied by his Muslim and European opponents and contemporaries, Richard the Lionheart cast a long shadow. For almost 600 years Richard I was regarded as one of England's greatest kings - the standard that other kings strove to emulate or were measured against, not only in England but across Europe. ![]()
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