Bibliograph

The Kingmaker's sisters, six powerful women in the Wars of the Roses, David Baldwin

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The Kingmaker's sisters, six powerful women in the Wars of the Roses, David Baldwin

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Kingmaker's sisters

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

David Baldwin

Sub title

six powerful women in the Wars of the Roses

Summary

Warwick the Kingmaker, the Earl of Warwick & Salisbury whose wealth and power was so great that he could effectively decide who would rule England during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), had six sisters: Joan, Cecily, Alice, Eleanor, Katherine and Margaret. They all married powerful noblemen who fought on opposing sides during this turbulent period. The Kingmaker's Sisters examines the role that they played in late fifteenth-century England, as wives, mothers and homemakers, but also as deputies for their absent husbands, and how the struggle between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians affected them and their families. Scholarly but accessible, this is the first history of the Wars of the Roses to be written from this perspective, and will appeal to general readers, historians of the period and those with an interest in feminist history

Target audience

adult

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