Blood and Roses : One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses Paperback - 2007
by Castor, Helen
- Used
Revealing the tapestry of an age, this history of one family's struggle during the War of the Roses is crafted from a rare trove of letters found in a tumbledown stately home. Two 8-page inserts, one in color.
Description
Details
- Title Blood and Roses : One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses
- Author Castor, Helen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2007-04-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6282644-6
- ISBN 9780007162222 / 0007162227
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.54 x 1.09 in (20.27 x 14.07 x 2.77 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder. Over the course of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. Yet until now, little has been written about the ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary time.
Blood and Roses is a gripping, intimate story of one determined family conducting everyday business against the backdrop of a disintegrating society and savage civil war. Drawing on a rare trove of letters discovered in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the turbulent affairs of the Pastons through three generations of births, marriages, and deaths as they single-mindedly worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry. It is a remarkable chronicle of devotion, ambition, and survival that brings a remote and hazy era to vibrant new life.
