ID - 93546256 TI - The Wars of the Roses PY - 1997 SN - 0521268001 0521318742 1139163582 9781139163583 9780521268004 9780521318747 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - 1399-1485 KW - 1485-1509 KW - Constitutional history, Medieval. KW - Constitutional history, Medieval KW - 942.04 KW - 942.04 Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1399-1485) KW - Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1399-1485) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:93546256 AB - This is a new interpretation of English politics during the extended period beginning with the majority of Henry VI in c. 1437 up to the accession of Henry VII in 1509. The later fifteenth century in England is a somewhat baffling and apparently incoherent period which historians and history students have found consistently difficult to handle. The large-scale 'revisionism' inspired by the classic work of K. B. McFarlane led to the first real work on politics, both national and local, but has left the period in a disjointed state: much material has been unearthed, but without any real sense of direction or coherence. This book places the events of the century within a clearly delineated framework of constitutional structures, practices and expectations, in an attempt to show the meaning of the apparently frenetic and purposeless political events which occurred within that framework - and which sometimes breached it. At the same time it takes cognisance of all the work that has been done on the period, including recent and innovative work on Henry VI. ER -