This concise, lucid study charts the complex sequence of events we know today as the War of the Roses. In the thematic c
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The Wars of the Roses (1455–85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the success
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The civil wars of the first half of the fifteenth century still stand in the popular imagination as the period of greate
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Much myth and fantasy surrounds the events of the Wars of the Roses: a bloody and prolonged dynastic struggle between th
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The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and at
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The Wars of the Roses raged from 1455 to 1485 – the longest period of civil war in English history. They barely affected
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The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) saw the end of Plantagenet rule in England and Wales, and the accession of the Tudor dyn
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What were the principal factors that influenced and shaped the behaviour of the gentry during the Wars of the Roses, fro
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This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encomp
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