Title: The Wars of the Roses
First published: 1997
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. --from publisher description.
Subjects: Constitutional history, Medieval, History, Medieval Constitutional history, Politics and government, Great britain, politics and government, 1066-1485, Great britain, politics and government, 1485-1603
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 1399-1485, 1485-1509, Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
LC classification: JN137 .C37 1997