Christine Carpenter (University of Cambridge)

The Wars of the Roses

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Wars of the Roses were a period of major crisis in English politics and in the lives of the English landowning classes. This book attempts to explain why the Wars happened, and with what results, by placing them in the context of the ruling classes' expectations of kingship and governance at this time.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521318747
• ISBN-10: 0521318742
• Artikelnr.: 21947456

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sources and historiography
2. The governance of England in the fifteenth century (i)
3. The governance of England in the fifteenth century (ii)
4. The Lancastrian kings to c. 1437
5. Henry VI's adult rule: the first phase c. 1437-50
6. The road to war: 1450-55
7. The end of Lancastrian rule: 1455-61
8. Edward IV's first reign: 1461-71
9. The triumph of York: 1471-83
10. Richard III and the end of Yorkist rule: 1483-5
11. Henry VII and the end of the wars: 1485-1509
12. Conclusions
Bibliographical notes.