Richard III and his rivals : magnates and their motives in the War of the Roses /: magnates and their motives in the War of the Roses. (1991)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Hicks.
• Other Names: Hicks, M. A (Michael A.), 1948-
• Contents: Bastard feudalism: society and politics in Fifteenth-Century England -- Idealism in late Medieval English politics -- Attainder, resumption, and coercion, 1461-1529 -- Chantries, obits and almshouses: the Hungerford Foundations, 1325-1478 -- The piety of Margaret, Lady Hungerford (d. 1478) -- St. Katherine's Hospital, Heytesbury: prehistory, foundations, and re-foundations, 1409-78 -- Reatraint, mediation, and private justice: George, Duke of Clarence as 'Good Lord' -- Edward IV, the Duke of Somerset and Lancastrian loyalism in the North -- Piety and lineage in the War of the Roses: the Hungerford experience -- Counting the cost of war: the Moleyns Ransom and the Hungerford land-sales, 1453-87 -- The changing role of the Wydevilles in Yorkist politics to 1483 -- Lord Hastings' indentured retainers? -- Richard III as Duke of Gloucester: a study in character -- Richard III's Cartulary in the British Library MS Cotton Julius BXII -- What might have been: George Neville, Duke of Bedford, 1465-85: his identity and significance -- The last days of Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford -- Richard III and Romsey -- Descent, partition and extinction: the Warwick inheritance -- The Beauchamp Trust, 1439-87 -- The Neville Earldom of Salisbury, 1429-71 -- Dynastic change and Northern society: the Fourth Earl of Northumberland, 1470-89 -- The Yorkist rebellion of 1489 reconsidered -- The case of Sir Thomas Cook, 1468.
• Publisher Details: London Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 447 pages)
• Subjects: 942.04; History; HISTORY; Geschichte (1455-1485); Rosenkriege; Aristokratie; Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485; Great Britain -- History -- Richard III, 1483-1485; Great Britain; Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1483-1485 (Richard 3); Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1455-1485 (Guerre des deux roses); England; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780826423788; 0826423787
• Related ISBNs: 1852850531; 9781852850531
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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