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Wars of the Roses

1455–1485

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Av Michael Hicks, Robert O'Neill

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The Wars of the Roses featured sixteen invasions, four successful; six times kings lost their thrones. This book explores why those invasions occurred and kept occurring. Destruction and devastation were minimal, barely affecting the day to day routine of the civilian population, yet the Wars were lethal for their noble leaders and, as first hand accounts reveal, blighted the lives of their women and children. That the Wars ended so abruptly was not so much because Henry VII won at Bosworth and ruled effectively, the author concludes, but rather because a feel-good factor removed popular discontent and continental rivals turned elsewhere.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-04-20
Mått170 x 245 x 5 mm
Vikt280 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEssential Histories
Antal sidor96
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781841764917

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Michael Hicks is Professor of Medieval History at King Alfred's College, Winchester. He holds three history degrees at English universities and has written extensively on the Wars of the Roses, mainly through biographies of important protagonists such as Warwick the Kingmaker, False Fleeting Perjur'd Clarence and Richard III who shaped successive stages of the conflict. He is a regular contributor to history journals and to 'The Ricardian'.