Many misconceptions have been swept away, yet even so the dynastic conflict still confuses many. Sources for this period are meagre and often ambiguous, yet much research has been done over the last hundred years to illuminate a little for us what is often described as the twilight world of the fifteenth century. This question and the series of wars that would try to answer it is explored in depth in Alison Weir’s book “The Wars of the Roses”.Īlison Weir explains the struggle of studying this time period and what she is trying to accomplish in her book: This was a series over the question of who had the strongest claim to the throne. The Lancasters were the descendants of John of Gaunt and his wife Blanche of Lancaster while the Yorks were descendants of Edmund of Langley Duke of York. In fact the conflict started much earlier with the children of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault. It is traditionally taught that it was between the houses of York and Lancaster, yet there were a lot more players involved than these two families. Urn:oclc:460486260 Republisher_date 20120314065815 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120313215634 Scanner Wars of the Roses was a series of wars from 1455 until 1487 for the throne of England. Urn:lcp:warsofroses00weir_0:epub:01886aee-ba4d-4e2d-b9fd-72ff52406b66 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier warsofroses00weir_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t25b1675r Isbn 9780345404336ĩ6002036 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL18481097M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:58:10 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA176301 Boxid_2 CH122913 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st American trade pbk.
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