Short History of the Wars of the Roses 9781848858756

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Автор: Grummitt David
Название: Short History of the Wars of the Roses
Перевод названия: Дэвид Грэммит: Краткая история войны Алой и Белой Розы
ISBN: 9781848858756
Издательство: Неизвестно
Классификация:

История Британии и Ирландии

История раннего нового времени: с 1450/1500 гг. по 1700 г.

Военная история

Военные действия и оборона

Сражения и кампании

ISBN-10: 1848858752
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 30.10.2012
Серия: I.b. tauris short histories
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 30 integrated bw illustrations
Размер: 145 x 214 x 17
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The Wars of the Roses (c. 1455-1487) 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 localised 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, Mortimers Cross, Towton, Tewkesbury and finally Bosworth, when the usurping Yorkist king, Richard III, 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 husbands 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.

Short History of the Wars of the Roses, Grummitt David