Research Catalog

Title

Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses : from contemporary chronicles, letters & records / Keith Dockray.

Author

Dockray, Keith

Publication

[Stroud] : Fonthill Media, 2016.

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Details

Description

223 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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 portrayed by William Shakespeare as bloody dynastic struggles fought for the possession of the crown, brought the usurpation of Edward IV (1461-83), the humiliation and exile of Margaret of Anjou, and the murder of her husband in the Tower of London. Combining a framework of interpretation 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.Keith Dockray was formerly Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Huddersfield.This volume, following in the footsteps of his Edward IV: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records (2015) and Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records (2013) completes a trilogy of source readers covering English kings, politics and war circa 1450 to 1485." --Publisher's description.

Subject

• Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471
• Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482
• 1422-1485
• Great Britain > History > Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485

Genre/Form

• History
• Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Henry VI -- Margaret of Anjou -- Richard of York -- Origins of the Wars of the Roses -- Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450 -- Dartford, 1452 -- St Albans, 1455 -- Blore Heath and Ludford, 1459 -- Northampton and Wakefield, 1460 -- Mortimer's Cross, St Albans and Towton, 1461 -- Hexham, 1464 -- Barnet, Tewkesbury and the end of the Lancastrian Dynasty, 1471.

ISBN

• 9781781554692
• 1781554692

OCLC

• 947095054
• SCSB-12676317

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library