The Wars of the Roses: War and Martial Culture in England 1455-1487

Grummitt, David (2024). The Wars of the Roses: War and Martial Culture in England 1455-1487. Oxford: Oxford University Press (In press).

Abstract

The military history of the Wars of the Roses has received little attention from academic historians in recent years. While the Hundred Years War and the armies of Henry VIII have been the subject of several substantial scholarly studies, the military aspects of the domestic struggles of the later fifteenth century have been relatively neglected. This new study argues that later fifteenth-century England was a highly militarised society, but that warfare and developments in weaponry, tactics and military organisation took place within a distinctly English legal and cultural framework. It examines the conduct of armed conflict, within the context of rebellion against royal authority, the effects of that conflict across English society, and the ways in which the Wars of the Roses were memorialized and made sense of by contemporaries and later generations.

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