Shift in Balance of Power Between Crown and Magnates Įdward III Effigy at Westminster Abby Stained Glass ImageĮdward I Presiding Over Parliament, c.Immediate Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: “The Kingmaker”.2nd War, House of York Versus House of Tudor, 1483-87.1st War, House of Lancaster Versus House of York.1485 Not Significant Turning Point Battle of Townton Moor, 1461.

Percy Soldiers of Edward IV Put Richard, Earl of Warwick, to Death, 1471 Edward IV watches.įamily Feuds: Neville vs. Private Vendettas Battle of Barnet, 1471īeheading of Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset in 1471 at Tewkesbury.Factional Conflict Between Ins and Outs.At the same time it takes cognisance of all the work that has been done on the period, including recent and innovative work on Henry VI.

This book places the events of the century within a clearly delineated framework of constitutional structures, practices and expectations, in an attempt to show the meaning of the apparently frenetic and purposeless political events which occurred within that framework - and which sometimes breached it. McFarlane led to the first real work on politics, both national and local, but has left the period in a disjointed state: much material has been unearthed, but without any real sense of direction or coherence. The large-scale 'revisionism' inspired by the classic work of K. The later fifteenth century in England is a somewhat baffling and apparently incoherent period which historians and history students have found consistently difficult to handle. 1437 up to the accession of Henry VII in 1509. This is a new interpretation of English politics during the extended period beginning with the majority of Henry VI in c.

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