Annotations on Richard the Lionheart

These are annotations for the thirteenth chapter of the book Impossible Histories. I’m not saying you need to keep a copy of IH open next to you as you read, but it might make some things clearer?

p.240
•epigraph: The epigraph here was to be:

Lord Jesus kyng of glorye
Suche grace and vyctorye
Thou sente to Kyng Rychard,
That neuer was found coward!
§Richard Coer de Lyon (C14).

p. 243
•The death of Thomas à Becket: This is the plot of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (1935).

•Death to the Greeks: The n...