Bibliograph

Blood Sisters, The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

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Blood Sisters, The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blood Sisters

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

830163275

Sub title

The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

Summary

To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses?the series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England?were known collectively as a ?cousins war." The struggle that ultimately brought into being the Tudor dynasty was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. What set the Wars of the Roses apart, of course, was that there was a kingdom at stake. Since the end of the fourteenth century, control of the House of Plantagenet?and the vast territory it ruled in the British Isles?had been claimed by

Table Of Contents

Table of Contents; A Note on Names; Glossary of Select Names; Simplified Family Tree; Prologue; PART I: 1445-1460, LANCASTER; 1. Fatal Marriage; 2. ""The Red Rose and the White""; 3. ""A Woman's Fear""; 4. ""No Women's Matters""; 5. ""Captain Margaret""; 6. ""Mightiness Meets Misery""; PART II: 1460-1471; 7. ""To Love a King""; 8. ""Fortune's Pageant""; 9. ""Domestic Broils""; 10. ""That Was a Queen""; PART III: 1471-1483; 11. ""My Lovely Queen""; 12. ""Fortune's Womb""; 13. Mother of Griefs; 14. ""A Golden Sorrow""; PART IV: 1483-1485; 15. ""Weeping Queens""; 16. ""Innocent Blood""17. ""Look to Your Wife""18. ""Anne My Wife""; 19. ""In Bosworth Field""; PART V: 1485-1509; 20. ""True Succeeders""; 21. ""Golden Sovereignty""; 22. ""The Edge of Traitors""; 23. ""Civil Wounds""; 24. Like a Queen Inter Me; 25. ""Our Noble Mother""; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index

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