A short history of the Wars of the Roses / David Grummitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grummitt, David, 1971-

Series:

I.B. Tauris short histories.

I.B. Tauris short histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

War and society.

Political culture--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Political culture.

Monarchy--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Monarchy.

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

Great Britain.

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Other Title:

Wars of the Roses

Place of Publication:

London ; I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Language Note:

English

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, 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.

Contents:

Introduction: The wars in history

Dramatis 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-205) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780755698585

0755698584

9781350146891

1350146897

9780857723291

0857723294

OCLC:

900889157