Three Crises in Early English History: Personalities and Politics During the Norman Conquest, the Reign of King John, and the Wars of the Roses - Couverture rigide

Alexander, Michael V.C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761811877 ISBN 13 : 9780761811879

Editeur : University Press of America, 1998

Synopsis

Three Crises in Early English History gives a clear, concise, and up-to-date account of the three crises in early English history beginning with the Norman Conquest which began with the battle of Hastings and ended in William the Conqueror's Suppression of the Yorkshire rebels in 1071. There is a detailed account of the positive and negative effects of the Conquest on English government. A special effort is made to explain King John's judicial and financial expedients, which collectively drove a determined minority of the country's baronage into the open rebellion that led to the sixty-three clauses of the Magna Carta. The book concludes with four connected essays of the Wars of the Roses, which resulted from England's defeat in the Hundred Years' War and the ineffectual rule of Henry VI and lasting a whole generation. Here these complicated episodes and the colorful figures involved, like Richard of York, Warwick the Kingmaker, and Edward the IV are laid out clearly for the reader.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael VanCleave Alexander is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761811877
• ISBN 13: 9780761811879
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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