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The 1460s: 1460–1469
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Edward IV won his throne at Towton in 1461, still the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil, and spent the decade balancing the earl of Warwick, who made and unmade kings. In Bruges and Venice, bankers financed the same wars, and Lorenzo de' Medici came of age in Florence.
Towton in 1461 decided a decade of English politics in a single snowy day. Philippa Gregory's The White Queen follows Edward's queen Elizabeth Woodville through it, and Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolò Rising opens in the Bruges counting-houses of 1460. Open the 1460s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
10 famous stories set in the 1460s
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Browse 10 books set in the 1460s (1460–1469).
The White Queen
Brother turns on brother. The throne of England is at stake. The deadly Wars of the Roses have begun. . . ."They ruled England before the Tudors, and now internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings the…
Scales of Gold
With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is…
Niccolò Rising
With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is…
Race of Scorpions
With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid…
The Unicorn Hunt
With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is…
Virgin Widow
This title is about England's forgotten Queen. England, 1469. A daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker, Anne Neville cannot dictate her own future. Her marriage will be political, made purely to advance her family's…
The Uncrowned Queen
The thrilling climax to the trilogy that began with The Innocent and The Exiled brings Posie Graeme-Evans's bittersweet story of two lovers divided by the throne of England to its dramatic conclusion. As England tears…
The Dragon Waiting
The Wars of the Roses have put Edward IV on the throne of England, Lorenzo de' Medici's court shines brilliantly, and Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza plots in Milan. But this is a changed world, and medieval Europe is…
Navzdory básník zpívá
Ústředním hrdinou románu je François Villon, buřič, tulák, člověk nevázaného života, především však básník. Je považován za předchůdce prokletých básníků a jeho poezie, ač poplatná středověké, přináší už mnohé moderní…
I Medici: Un uomo al potere
Firenze, 1469. Lorenzo de’ Medici sta vincendo il torneo in onore della sua sposa, Clarice Orsini, appena giunta a Firenze per le nozze con l’uomo che diventerà il Magnifico. Questo matrimonio non è un passo facile per…
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