A short history of the Wars of the Roses
Grummitt, David, 1971-2019
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The Wars of the Roses (c. 1455-1487) are renowned as an infamously savage and tangled slice of English history. A bloody 30-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, they embraced localised vendetta 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 III, was crushed by Henry Tudor. Powerful personalities dominate the period: the charismatic and enigmatic Richard III, immortalised by Shakespeare; 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 15th-century kingship and the development of English political culture.
Main title:
A short history of the Wars of the Roses / David Grummitt.
Author:
Grummitt, David, 1971-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Collation:
256 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
ISBN:
9781350146891 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.04942.04 GRUM
Language:
English
BRN:
90950
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