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Blood sisters : the women behind the Wars of the Roses /
To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses?the series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England?were known collectively as a?cousins war." The struggle that ultimately brought into being the Tudor dynasty was truly a domestic drama, as fraugh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
Basic Books,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses?the series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England?were known collectively as a?cousins war." The struggle that ultimately brought into being the Tudor dynasty was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. What set the Wars of the Roses apart, of course, was that there was a kingdom at stake. Since the end of the fourteenth century, control of the House of Plantagenet?and the vast territory it ruled in the British Isles?had been claimed by. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (390 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780465065981 0465065988 9780465038688 0465038689 |