A Short History of the Wars of the Roses (I.B. Tauris Short Histories)

David Grummitt

ISBN 10: 1848858752 / ISBN 13: 9781848858756

Published by I.B.Tauris, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Short History of the Wars of the Roses (I.B. Tauris Short Histories)
• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848858752
• ISBN 13: 9781848858756
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 localized 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.

About the Author

David Grummitt is Lecturer in British History at the University of Kent. He is the author of The Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England, 1436-1558 (2008).