![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to demonstrating that the evidence of his queerness is both considerable and unambiguous, the article investigates how Richard’s political and cultural legacy has been used and re-used, how his status as an English national hero has been increasingly called into question, and how modern anxieties about the medieval crusades have driven the need to reconfigure his historical memory. 1189–99) and the medieval and modern historiography on the subjects of 1) his contested sexuality and 2) his participation in the Third Crusade (1187–92). This article explores King Richard I of England (r. ![]()
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