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Gristwood Sarah |
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Titolo |
Blood sisters [[electronic resource] ] : the women behind the Wars of the Roses / / Sarah Gristwood |
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New York, : Basic Books, c2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-465-03868-9 |
0-465-06598-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (433 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Great Britain History Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 |
Great Britain History Henry VII, 1485-1509 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. 1445-1460, Lancaster -- pt. 2. 1460-1471 -- pt. 3. 1471-1483 -- pt. 4. 1483-1485 -- pt. 5. 1485-1509. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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