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The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England.

The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England.

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The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England.

by GILLIINGHAM, JOHN:

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0297776304
ISBN 13
9780297776307
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj,publisher price missing - assumed commonwealth export edn,therefore true 1st edn,as these were published before the UK trade edns.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,mediaeval colour+b/w illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present.Top edge minimally dust-soiled with minimal spotting/foxing but clean,fore-edge brighter,cleaner,unfoxed with minimal thumbing; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Bright,crisp, clean,red paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xvpp+2-274pp [paginated] includes half- title+title pages,contents+illustrations+ maps lists,a preface,a chronological table,double-page genealogical table,14 chapters +conclusion,6 b/w maps (5 single page,1 double-page),16pp b/w illus/ photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp each, between pp110/11 and pp174/75 respectively,bibliographical guide,an index,and 4pp blanks to rear.
The Wars of the Roses have traditionally been seen as the last dying convulsion of the Middle Ages,a marker between the mediaeval and the modern,and above all as a period of violence,horror and civil disorder.John Gillingham's new book (then 1981) shows that this is a spurious view of the period.
His authoritative analysis of 15thC warfare proves that the actual battles of the wars involved far fewer men than has been assumed,and that,apart from the Northumbria and the Scottish border,England was a society organized for peace. The arts of peace flourished in the 15thC,which saw the beginning of printing in England,the rise of literacy and growing interest in vernacular architecture.The wars which sporadically interrupted that peace were fought in a manner calculated to bring them to a swift conclusion.The author shatters the Shakespearian myth of perpetual bloody conflict and shows that the wars had remarkably little effect on the social and religious life of the country or on the structure of politics.
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Title
The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England.
Author
GILLIINGHAM, JOHN:
Illustrator
illus with b/w photographs and b/w maps.
Book Condition
Used - NFINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0297776304
ISBN 13
9780297776307
Publisher
LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1981.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1981
Keywords
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