Blood sisters [electronic resource] : the women behind the Wars of the Roses / Sarah Gristwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gristwood, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Henry VII, 1485-1509.

Plantagenet, House of.

Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482.

Margaret.

York, Cecily, Duchess of, 1415-1495.

York, Cecily.

Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492.

Elizabeth.

Anne, Queen, consort of Richard III, King of England, 1456-1485.

Anne.

Margaret, of York, Duchess, consort of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1446-1503.

Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503.

Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, 1443-1509.

Beaufort, Margaret.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a ?cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. As acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies. These mot

Contents:

pt. 1. 1445-1460, Lancaster

pt. 2. 1460-1471

pt. 3. 1471-1483

pt. 4. 1483-1485

pt. 5. 1485-1509.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-465-03868-9

0-465-06598-8

OCLC:

830163275