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32: 425:. Indeed, Hicks has expressed doubt that the bones discovered in Leicester were actually those of the king, saying "lots of other people who suffered similar wounds could have been buried in the choir of the church where the bones were found", and raising doubts about some of the evidence brought forward. Elsewhere he called the television series 420:
campaign to rehabilitate the dead king, Hicks commented that "The Richard III Society consists of some who contain an extreme and romantic view. They publish scholarly work in the belief that it will eventually exculpate Richard III, but it hasn't actually done so". This refers to the controversy
332:, in which the nobility were motivated almost solely by financial and material interests, in which "self-interest, self-advantage, and self-preservation featured largely", this perspective gradually evolved, by the last decade of the twentieth century, into a more "complex" understanding of the 390:. It has been calculated that in the thirty-five year period to 2013 he published seventy-five articles and full-length studies, averaging over two per year. As of 2012, his most recent work has centred on the 354:
The Richard III Society consists of some who contain an extreme and romantic view. They publish scholarly work in the belief that it will eventually exculpate Richard III, but it hasn't actually done so.
296:(1975), which he had originally began under J. R. L. Highfield. In his own words, his research was – and remained – firmly placed within "the school of history founded by the late 300:... the Master" although with a heavy "biographical bent". His first published article, however, was on an aspect of law in the seventeenth century. Having worked for the 1106: 1081: 53: 46: 403: 1101: 344:, he opined that, until recently, "all History was political"; but noted that there was an increasingly thematic trend to historical research. 472:, and James Ross. Of his former students, Gordon McKelvie, Jessica Lutkin, and Karen Stober all contributed, as did the editor of the journal 1086: 840: 755: 1111: 96: 394:, and he is now principal investigator on a project "dedicated to creating a digital edition of the medieval English inquisitions". 68: 492: 811: 75: 607: 984: 965: 82: 646: 861: 633: 620: 594: 581: 568: 555: 540: 527: 514: 501: 115: 64: 546: 317: 966:"Was the skeleton found in the Leicester car park really King Richard III? Experts raise doubts – History Extra" 20: 427: 1091: 452:, and included contributions from academic colleagues and past students. Of the former these included 336:, in which their piety and religious belief, idealism and individuality are as important motives in " 308:, later the University of Winchester. A proposed joint paper with his former tutor, Charles Ross, on 281: 191: 89: 741:, London, 1991, x; Hicks, M. A., "Draper v. Crowther: The Prebend of Brownswood Dispute 1664–1692", 1060: 1049: 422: 377: 369: 305: 293: 269: 233: 209: 224:
Medieval English History, the Yorkist Kings, the Wars of the Roses, Richard III, bastard feudalism
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Richard III and his Rivals : Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses
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1019: 947: 842:, University of Winchester History Department Person Profile for Michael Hicks. 479: 313: 277: 1070: 474: 469: 381: 337: 1054: 916: 1045: 444: 320:, Michael Hicks and himself "foundered on incompatible points of view". 457: 368:
Eventually Professor of Medieval History and head of department at the
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False, Fleeting, Perjur'd Clarence: George, Duke of Clarence, 1449-78
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Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
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The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks
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The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem: A Companion
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Originally firmly wedded to the McFarlane understanding of
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in September 2012, amid the "upsurge of interest" in
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He is a Fellow of the 323: 304:project between 1974 and 1978, he joined 116:Learn how and when to remove this message 1102:Fellows of the Royal Historical Society 942: 940: 372:until his retirement, he was appointed 1069: 485: 398:Exhumation and reburial of Richard III 52:Please improve this article by adding 851: 937: 25: 1087:Alumni of the University of Bristol 1018:Hogenboom, M. (15 September 2012). 232:King Alfred's College, Winchester; 13: 1112:Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford 1011: 626:Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III 520:Who's who in late Medieval England 493:False, Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence 14: 1123: 1039: 380:, and the reviews editor for the 306:King Alfred's College, Winchester 252:, specialising in the history of 1056:Mapping the Medieval Countryside 30: 995: 976: 958: 923: 909: 896: 883: 870: 845: 804: 791: 600:The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485 983:Laura Barnett (24 June 2013). 762: 748: 731: 702: 689: 676: 437: 276:(1969–70), T. B. 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