The Wars of the Roses: Peace and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century England.
by GILLIINGHAM, JOHN:
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- ISBN 10
- 0297776304
- ISBN 13
- 9780297776307
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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
- 1
- 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
- *q52*.NAVAL/MILITARY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0297776304.15thC England_war.Houses of Lancaster_York.Medieval warfare_15thC_Britain.Henry VI.Richard of York.Margaret of Anjou.Richard of Warwick.Richard III.Henry Tudor.15thC Medieval manuscripts_illustr
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