Author: James GairdnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Edward Iv., 1461-1471 A.D
Author: James GairdnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Paston Letters, 1422-1509. A.d: Edward IV. (1461-1471 a.d.)
Author: James GairdnerThe Paston Letters A.D. 1422-1509: Edward IV 1461-1471 A.D
Author: James GairdnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Edward IV (Penguin Monarchs)
Author: A J PollardPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141978708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI. Ten years on, following outbreaks of civil conflict that culminated in him losing, then regaining the crown, he had finally secured his kingdom. The years that followed witnessed a period of rule that has been described as a golden age: a time of peace and economic and industrial expansion, which saw the establishment of a style of monarchy that the Tudors would later develop. Yet, argues A. J. Pollard, Edward, who was drawn to a life of sexual and epicurean excess, was a man of limited vision, his reign remaining to the very end the narrow rule of a victorious faction in civil war. Ultimately, his failure was dynastic: barely two months after his death in April 1483, the throne was usurped by Edward's youngest brother, Richard III.
Edward IV
Author: Hannes KleinekePublisher:
ISBN: 9780415368001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A central personality in both historical study and literary fame, Edward IV is as fascinating a character now as he was for William Shakespeare. Drawing together research and original sources, Hannes Kleineke reassesses the debate in this concise and accessible biography.
The Private Life of Edward IV
Author: John Ashdown-HillPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445652463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Edward's secret mistresses, clandestine affairs and the nature of his marriage are revealed in this exciting new work by John Ashdown-Hill, author of The Mythology of Richard III
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book Printed in England by William Caxton, in 1477
Author: William CaxtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385545595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Elizabeth Woodville
Author: David BaldwinPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752468979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Elizabeth Woodville is undoubtedly a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress; as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed and vilified by her contemporaries and five centuries of historians, dramatists and novelists, but what was she really life? In this revealing account of Elizabeth's life David Baldwin sets out to tell the story of this complex and intriguing woman. Was she the malign influence many of her critics held her to be? Was she a sorceress who bewitched Edward IV? What was the fate of her two sons, the 'Princes in the Tower'? What did she, of all people, think had become of them, and why did Richard III mount a campaign of vilification against her? David Baldwin traces Elizabeth's career and her influence on the major events of her husband Edward IV's reign, and in doing so he brings to life the personal and domestic politics of Yorkist England and the elaborate ritual of court life.
Edward IV., 1461-1471 A.D
Author: James GairdnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A Short History of the Wars of the Roses
Author: David GrummittPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857723294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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, Mortimer's 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 husband's 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.