Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Basic Books (2014), Edition: Reprint, 432 pages
Description
To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a ?cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. As acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies. These mot
Original language
English
Original publication date
2013
ISBN
0465060986 / 9780465060986