| Description |
1 online resource (390 pages) : map |
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Table of contents -- A note on names -- Glossary of select names -- Simplified family tree -- Prologue -- pt. I: 1445-1460, Lancaster: 1. Fatal marriage; 2. The red rose and the white; 3. A woman's fear; 4. No women's matters; 5. Captain Margaret; 6. Mightiness meets misery -- pt. II: 1460-1471: 7. To Love a king; 8. Fortune's pageant; 9. Domestic broils;10. That was a queen -- pt. III: 1471-1483: 11. My lovely queen; 12. Fortune's womb; 13. Mother of griefs; 14. A golden sorrow -- pt. IV: 1483-1485: 15. Weeping queens; 16. Innocent blood |
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17. Look to your wife; 18. Anne my wife; 19. In Bosworth field -- pt. V: 1485-1509: 20. True succeeders; 21. Golden sovereignty; 22. The edge of traitors; 23. Civil wounds; 24. Like a queen inter me; 25. Our noble mother -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Index |
| Summary |
To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses?the series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England?were known collectively as a?cousins war." The struggle that ultimately brought into being the Tudor dynasty was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. What set the Wars of the Roses apart, of course, was that there was a kingdom at stake. Since the end of the fourteenth century, control of the House of Plantagenet?and the vast territory it ruled in the British Isles?had been claimed by |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Plantagenet, House of.
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Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482.
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York, Cecily, Duchess of, 1415-1495.
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Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492.
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Anne, Queen, consort of Richard III, King of England, 1456-1485.
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Margaret, of York, Duchess, consort of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1446-1503.
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Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503.
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Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, 1443-1509.
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Anne, Queen, consort of Richard III, King of England, 1456-1485 fast |
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Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, 1443-1509 fast |
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Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492 fast |
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Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503 fast |
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Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482 fast |
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Margaret, of York, Duchess, consort of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1446-1503 fast |
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Plantagenet, House of fast |
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York, Cecily, Duchess of, 1415-1495 fast |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Rosenkriege
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Frau
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Historische Persönlichkeit
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Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056769
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Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056775
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012044813 |
| ISBN |
9780465065981 |
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0465065988 |
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9780465038688 |
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0465038689 |
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