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A Timeline of Fifteenth Century England - 1398 to 1509 (Paperback)
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A Timeline of Fifteenth Century England - 1398 to 1509 (Paperback)
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"A Timeline of Fifteenth Century England" covers the broad stretch
between the Edwards of the fourteenth century, and the Tudors of
the sixteenth. It begins with the Lancastrian usurpation,and ends
with the death of the first Tudor King. Packed in between, the
throne of England was usurpted six times, England was invaded seven
times by Englishmen, several times by the French, and some dozen
times by the Scots. The fifteenth century saw the last phase of the
Hundred Years War -- a heroic and frustrating thirty-five year
struggle -- and the entire Wars of the Roses -- another thirty-five
years of internecine bloodshed, including the bloodiest battle ever
fought on English soil. Three different dynasties ruled England, by
seven different kings, including the shortest reign of an English
king since the Norman invasion. Meanwhile, English kings began to
use English as the preferred written language, and the first book
was printed in England. Parliament grew particularly strong, the
King became a Constitutional Monarch, and England transformed from
late medievalism into a reformation that led to the Renaissance.
All this occurred during periods of corruption and chaos, murder
and mayhem, treachery and betrayal, and war and rebellion,
interspersed with occassional periods of peace and properity. It
has been said that no King can rule the English for long without
fighting a war, and the fifteenth century proves the point. Within
these pages lies a timeline documenting all the key events and
contrasting personalities of this turbulent period, from beginning
to end.
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