A short history of the wars of the roses
Introduction: The wars in historyDramatis personae -- Timeline -- Family trees -- Part 1. Causes -- The Lancastrian legacy : England, 1399-1449 -- The prelude to war : 1449-55 -- Part 2. Course -- First blood : the Battle of St. Albans, 1455, and its aftermath -- The triumph of York : the first war,...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
I.B. Tauris
2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | I.B. Tauris short histories
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| Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: The wars in historyDramatis personae -- Timeline -- Family trees -- Part 1. Causes -- The Lancastrian legacy : England, 1399-1449 -- The prelude to war : 1449-55 -- Part 2. Course -- First blood : the Battle of St. Albans, 1455, and its aftermath -- The triumph of York : the first war, 1459-64 -- Rebellion and readeption : the second war, 1469-71 -- Fortune's wheel : the third war, 1483-87 -- Part 3. Consequences -- War and society : the impact of the wars -- War and political culture -- Epilogue. "The Wars of the Roses (c. 1450-85) are renowned as an infamously savage and tangled slice of English history. A bloody thirty-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, they embraced localised vendetta (such as the bitter northern feud between the Percies and Nevilles) as well as the formal clash of royalist and rebel armies at St. Albans, Ludford Bridge, Mortimer's Cross, Towton, Tewkesbury and finally Bosworth, when the usurping Yorkist king Richard was crushed by Henry Tudor. Powerful personalities dominate the period: the charismatic and enigmatic Richard III, immortalized by Shakespeare; the slippery Warwick, 'the kingmaker', who finally over-reached ambition to be cut down at the battle of Barnet; and guileful women like Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret of Anjou, who for a time ruled the kingdom in her husband's stead. David Grummitt places the violent events of this complex time in the wider context of fifteenth-century kingship and the development of English political culture. Never losing sight of the traumatic impact of war on the lives of those who either fought in or were touched by battle, this captivating new history will make compelling reading for students of the late medieval period and Tudor England, as well as for general readers"--Publisher's website |
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| Beschreibung: | XXXIX, 212 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781848858756 978-1-84885-875-6 1848858752 1-84885-875-2 9781848858749 978-1-84885-874-9 1848858744 1-84885-874-4 |