num_pages: 312
description: The Wars of the Roses was a period of major crisis in English politics and in the lives of the English landowning classes. This book attempts to explain why the Wars occurred, and with what results, by placing them in the context of the ruling classes' expectations of kingship and governance at that time. The book draws on a large amount of detailed work written over the past twenty-five years on local and national politics, to present a coherent synthesis of what can seem a baffling and incoherent period.
language: English
title: The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c.1437-1509
titlecomplete: The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c.1437-1509(Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
genres: British Literature, Nonfiction, History, Medieval
ratings_count: 59
series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
publisher: Cambridge University Press