Research Catalog

Title

The brothers York : an English tragedy / Thomas Penn.

Author

Penn, Thomas

Publication

London : Allen Lane, 2019.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps, genealogical table; 24 cm

Summary

The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne, then tore itself apart. In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown of England as Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York. The country was in need of a new hero. Magnetic, narcissistic, Edward found himself on the throne, and alongside him his two younger brothers: the unstable, petulant George, Duke of Clarence, and the boy who would emerge from his shadow, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Charismatic, able and ambitious, the brothers would become the figureheads of a spectacular ruling dynasty, one that laid the foundations for a renewal of English royal power. Yet a web of grudges and resentments grew between them, generating a destructive sequence of conspiracy, rebellion, deposition, fratricide, usurpation and regicide. The house of York's brutal end came on 22 August 1485 at Bosworth Field, with the death of the youngest brother, now Richard III, at the hands of a new usurper, Henry Tudor. The house of York should have been the dynasty that the Tudors became. Its tragedy was that it devoured itself.

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Great Britain > History > House of Lancaster, 1399-1461
• 1399-1603
• History
• Great Britain > History > House of York, 1461-1485

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-636) and index.

Contents

Pt. ONE Blood Royal Winter 1461 -- Summer 1464 -- 1.Three Suns -- 2.The Rose Stands Alone -- 3.The World is Right Wild -- 4.Two Kings of England -- pt. TWO Blind Affection Summer 1464 -- Spring 1468 -- 5.Now Take Heed What Love May Do -- 6.They Are Not to be Trusted -- 7.Love Together as Brothers in Arms -- pt. THREE A Season of Punishment Spring 1468 -- Summer 1471 -- 8.Robin Mend-All -- 9.The Matter Quickeneth -- 10.They Think He Will Leave His Skin There -- 11.The Knot is Knit Again -- pt. FOUR Brother Against Brother Summer 1471 -- Spring 1483 -- 12.A New Foundation -- 13.Master of the Game -- 14.War Outward -- 15.The Most Extreme Purposed Malice -- 16.Diamond Cuts Diamond -- 17.They Have Taken Away the Rose of the World -- pt. FIVE The Gaze of Our Inward Eye Spring 1483 -- Summer 1485 -- 18.Old Royal Blood -- 19.No Long Time in Rest -- 20.The Castle of Care -- 21.A Beginning or End.

Call Number

JFE 20-131

ISBN

• 9781846146909
• 1846146909

OCLC

1112372141

Author

Penn, Thomas, author.

Title

The brothers York : an English tragedy / Thomas Penn.

Publisher

London : Allen Lane, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-636) and index.

Chronological Term

1399-1603

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780718197292

Research Call Number

JFE 20-131