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A Short History of the Wars of the Roses.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grummitt, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485--Biography.
- Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485--Social aspects.
- Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
- Monarchy--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- Political culture--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- War and society--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- Local Subjects:
- Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485--Biography.
- Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485--Social aspects.
- Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
- Monarchy--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- Political culture--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- War and society--Great Britain--History--To 1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Other Title:
- Short History of the Wars of the Roses, A
- Short History of the Wars of the Roses
- Sweet Delights from a Thousand and One Nights
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B.Tauris, 2014.
- Summary:
- 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, immortal
- Contents:
- Cover; Author biography; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Wars in History; Dramatis Personae; Timeline; Family Trees; Part 1: Causes; Chapter 1: The Lancastrian Legacy: England 1399-1449; Chapter 2: The Prelude to War: 1449-55; Part 2: Course; Chapter 3: First Blood: The Battle of St Albans 1455 and its Aftermath; Chapter 4: The Triumph of York: The First War 1459-64; Chapter 5: Rebellion and Readeption: The Second War 1469-71; Chapter 6: Fortune's Wheel: The Third War 1483-87; Part 3: Consequences; Chapter 7: War and Society: The Impact of the Wars
- Chapter 8: War and Political CultureEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; List of Illustrations
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857733030
- 0857733036
- OCLC:
- 881415378
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