Warwick the Kingmaker, the Earl of Warwick & Salisbury whose wealth and power was so great that he could effectively decide who would rule England during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), had six sisters: Joan, Cecily, Alice, Eleanor, Katherine and Margaret. They all married powerful noblemen who often found themselves on opposing sides during this turbulent period. The Kingmaker's Sisters examines the role that they played in late fifteenth-century England, as wives, mothers and homemakers, but also as deputies for their absent husbands, and how the struggle between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians affected them and their families. Scholarly but accessible, this is the first history of the Wars of the Roses to be written from this perspective, and will appeal to general readers, historians of the period and those with an interest in feminist history.
Autorentext
The late DAVID BALDWIN taught medieval history and was the author of Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes of the Tower and The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York'.
Titel
The Kingmaker's Sisters
Untertitel
Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses
Autor
EAN
9780752479903
ISBN
978-0-7524-7990-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
30.11.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
0.35 MB
Anzahl Seiten
192
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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