Modern Form of Battle – Petitions

Published September 5, 2013 | By CDoart

King Richard Armitage Week 2013 is over now, but the fantastic article contributions and interviews remain available.
Have a look here and test your knowledge about King Richard III in the quiz (solutions here).
The prizes went out via mail last week and should arrive with the two winners and KingRichardArmitage Champions 2013 shortly.

As the fandom of actor Richard Armitage often gets generally refered to as ‘Armitage Army’, it will not astonish that we use the ‘modern form of battle’ to show our hopes and whishes.
Our petition for a film to be made about King Richard III, which involves actor Richard Armitage in whatever function or action he is willing to take, is open worldwide, as also the audience of a potential film is expected to be world spanning, as do our signatures show.

As we run our petition for a film about King Richard III under the influence of actor Richard Armitage for a while now, we observe all later petitions about King Richard III with especial scrutiny, as already the topic connection ‘petition for King Richard’ brings us in close proximity with them, even when we remain completely neutral on any of their outcome.

While our petition addresses all who are interested in King Richard III and actor Richard Armitage, the new petitions for King Richard III are more localised events and most only open for U.K. citizens. Though, are they really ‘for’ King Richard III or just one place or other, interpreting the king and his potential wishes from a modern standpoint and projecting modern ideas, laws and democratic ideals on a Medieval king and – not to fortget, after all – a human being?
This is the question I, though excessively researching the running petitions, never could answer to my complete satisfaction and so I just can’t give any kind of advice how to vote or take part in the ‘Battle of the Cities’ and remain with my neutral standpoint – potentially taking the position of ‘advocatus diaboli‘ to present all positions equally – and link to all petitions available, whenever they come up in the news:

♛ Battle of the Cities ♛

Leicester Mercury: Mercury opinion: Make it clear – Richard III belongs here (31.08.2013)

ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III: Keep our King where he belongs, by Leicester Mercury (01.09.2013) – Petition for Leicester (ePetition-Link, UK citizens only)

The York Press: Still time to sign Richard III petition, Megi Rychlikova (02.09.2013) – Petition for York (ePetition-Link UK citizens only).

The Lawyer: Tug-of-war over Richard III heads for courts, by Joanne Harris (02.09.2013) – Comment on the Judical Review, initiated by the Plantagenet Alliance.

Yorkshire Post: It’s not Yorkshire being greedy over Richard’s resting place, by Angela Moreton (02.09.2013) – Is the burial place for King Richard III perhaps more of a modern question about our soldiers today than about the historic king? Find out here what King Richard III has to do with Afghanistan.

ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III: ‘No evidence to say king wanted a burial in York’, by Peter Warzynski, Leicester Mercury (02.09.2013) – Prof Mark Ormrod from the University of York about the ‘wishes’ of King Richard III in the Battle of the Towns.

ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III campaign: MPs back our battle royal, by Peter Warzynski, Leicester Mercury (03.09.2013) – Our interview with Peter Warzynski and lots of background information about the archaeological research and Leicester can be found here on KRA.

The York Press: ‘No evidence’ for Richard III’s burial wish, by Mark Stead (03.09.2013)

Yorkshire Post: Dame Judi backs Richard III campaign (05.09.2013) – Dame Judi Dench is in favour of her home city York.

♛ King Richard III ♛

BBC News: Richard III: More or Less examines how many descendents he could have (19.08.2013) – Should we possibly wait till all relatives of King Richard III are determined to allow them to give their vote in the dicision of his last resting place?

The Telegraph: Richard III skeleton ‘was inches from being destroyed’, by Nick Collins (23.08.2013)

ThisIsGloucestershire.co.uk: Richard III ‘wasn’t mean’ as hilarious song shows, by The Citizen (26.08.2013) – Now it is finally decided !

Huffington Post: King Richard III’s Skeleton Was Nearly Destroyed In Burial Site ‘Disturbance,’ Scientists Say (28.08.2013)

The Guardian: Richard III, a first for online film, by Paola Totaro (28.08.2013) – Richard III is very modern.

Spear’s: Day of the remains: after Richard III was recovered, who owns your corpse? By Hilesh Chavda, Maurice Turnor Gardner (28.08.2013) – Who does your body legally belong to, who does King Richard III’s body belong to?

NewStatesman: Was the downfall of Richard III caused by a strawberry? By Amy Licence (31.08.2013) – What consumption of food can cause …

Telegram & Gazette: Woodstock woman to attend King Richard III’s reburial, by Richard Duckett (02.09.2013) – Article about a Richard III Society member, Sally Keil, from the U.S., who will attend the burial ceremony in Leicester next year.

LiveScience.com: Infected and Hunched: King Richard III Was Crawling With Roundworms, by Douglas Main (03.09.2013)
– I must admit, I would have been rather surprised if he had not had the infection. Considering that most of our grown and today cultivated food and fruit had not been domesticated nearly as much in the late Middle Ages, but really was collected in the woods, everything else would rather have been a miracle. Furthermore, without the invention of sewage works, the spreading of the parasites was rather a democratic business, even in a royal society.
But, after all, this is news that even achieves to get the attention of German newspapers, when the last time only money could alert them to King Richard III.