The Wars of the Roses: Military Activity and English Society, 1452-97

ISBN-13: 9780415052641 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 304 str.

Anthony Goodman; Goodman A. Goodman

Opis

This book presents an overall view of the campaigns, from the first skirmishes of 1452 to the last campaign in 1497, and examines the generalship of the commanders in both camps. Anthony Goodman discusses military organization and assesses the effects of wars on society in general. He shows that in a period of rapid change in European methods of warfare the English were not so old fashioned as had sometimes been supposed. Continental, including chronicles, civic centres, and letters, and presents a picture of the wars as they were seen and described by contemporaries.

Spis treści

Introduction Part One The Campaigns 1 Yorkist Rebellions, 1452-60 2 The War of Succession, 1460-1 3 Lancastrian Risings and Invasions, 1461-4 4 Local Revolts and Nobles' Struggles To Control the Crown, 1469-71 5 The Later Risings, 1483-97 Part Two Military Organization and Society 6 Military Convention and Recruitment 7 Supply, Billets and Ordnance 8 Methods of Warfare 9 The Wars and Society

O autorze

Anthony Goodman read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford and is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh