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The Art of War in Medieval England
Graham Turner grew up fascinated by Arthurian legend. When he became a professional artist he expressed this boyhood interest into art, painting scenes illustrating Arthurian castles and knights errant. The Arthurian legend first entered print around the era of the War of the Roses, leading Turner to study the armor and appearance of that era – and gain an equal fascination with that period.
The War of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner, by Graham Turner, is the end result of that interest. It compiles forty years of his War of the Roses art in this history of the conflict.
The book is a comprehensive history of the war which ran from 1455 to 1487. It was a set of civil wars in England fought between two branches of the House of Plantagenet. A fratricidal conflict, it led to the demise of both competing Lancaster and York factions and their replacement by the House of Tudor. Fought during the transition from Medieval Times to the Modern Era it was either the last Medieval war or the first Modern one.