2000, ISBN: 0750925264

[SR: 1407586], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780750925266], Sutton Publishing, Sutton Publishing, Book, [PU: Sutton Publishing], 2000-03-23, Sutton Publishing, Henry VI (1422-61), a man "more given t… Mehr…

[SR: 1407586], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780750925266], Sutton Publishing, Sutton Publishing, Book, [PU: Sutton Publishing], 2000-03-23, Sutton Publishing, Henry VI (1422-61), a man "more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things", was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou, "a great and strong laboured woman", became a formidable political force in her own right; and the Wars of the Roses, so dramatically protrayed by William Shakespeare as bloody dynastic struggles fought for the possession of the crown, brought the usurpation of Edward IV (1461-83), the humilation and exile of Margaret of Anjou, and the murder of her husband in the Tower of London. Combining a framework of iinterpretation and a rich selection of passages from contemporary and near-contemporary sources, this compilation enables readers to appreciate just why the rule of Henry VI resulted in the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses, what these internecine conflicts were like, and how they culminated in the end of the House of Lancaster., 758944, Europe, 758932, Countries & Regions, 268021, Historical, 67, Biography, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

2000, ISBN: 0750925264

[SR: 1297652], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780750925266], Sutton Publishing, Sutton Publishing, Book, [PU: Sutton Publishing], 2000-03-23, Sutton Publishing, Henry VI (1422-61), a man "more given t… Mehr…

[SR: 1297652], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780750925266], Sutton Publishing, Sutton Publishing, Book, [PU: Sutton Publishing], 2000-03-23, Sutton Publishing, Henry VI (1422-61), a man "more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things", was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou, "a great and strong laboured woman", became a formidable political force in her own right; and the Wars of the Roses, so dramatically protrayed by William Shakespeare as bloody dynastic struggles fought for the possession of the crown, brought the usurpation of Edward IV (1461-83), the humilation and exile of Margaret of Anjou, and the murder of her husband in the Tower of London. Combining a framework of iinterpretation and a rich selection of passages from contemporary and near-contemporary sources, this compilation enables readers to appreciate just why the rule of Henry VI resulted in the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses, what these internecine conflicts were like, and how they culminated in the end of the House of Lancaster., 758944, Europe, 758932, Countries & Regions, 268021, Historical, 67, Biography, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

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2000, ISBN: 9780750925266

Sutton Publishing, Gebundene Ausgabe, Publiziert: 2000-03-23T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Kategorien, Bücher, Sutton Publishing, 2000