The Wars of the Roses.

Canadian Journal of History | August 1, 1997| | Copyright

At least four books entitled The Wars of the Roses have appeared in the last fifteen years. Although historians are aware that the name is not really appropriate, (red and white roses as symbols of York and Lancaster meant more to the Tudors than to earlier protagonists), it has proved difficult to characterize the rather diverse spasmodic civil wars of fifteenth century England by any other name. There is little consensus on these wars - when they started, when they finished, how widespread they were, what impact they had - so it is perhaps better not to try give them a more ...

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