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050 14 $aDA250$b.G54 2005
100 1 $aGillingham, John.
245 14 $aThe Wars of the Roses :$bpeace & conflict in 15th century England /$cJohn Gillingham.
260 $aLondon :$bPhoenix Press,$c2005.
300 $axv, 274 pages :$billustrations, maps, genealogical table ;$c20 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
500 $a"A Phoenix paperback."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 258-265) and index.
505 0 $aChronological table -- Genealogical table -- Introduction : the making of the myth -- This seat of peace -- The disciplines of war -- Henry VI : the careless king, 1422-50 -- Richard of York : the high and mighty prince, 1450-3 -- The road to St. Albans, 1453-5 -- Margaret of Anjou : the warlike queen, 1455-9 -- Five battles, 1459-61 -- The war in the north, 1461-4 -- Richard of Warwick : the discontented earl, 1465-70 -- The return of the old king, 1470-1 -- Coming in by the windows, 1471-83 -- The usurpation of Richard III : 1483 -- Henry Tudor : the ending of the wars, 1483-7 -- Conclusion.
520 $aThe War of the Roses have traditionally been seen as the last dying convulsion of the Middle Ages, a marker between the medieval and the modern, and above all as a period of violence, horror and civil disorder. John Gillingham's new book shows that this is a spurious view of the period. His authoritative analysis of fifteenth-century 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 fifteenth century, 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. -- Publisher description
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