This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... THE HOUSE OF YORK AND THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES The story of the Middle Ages in England hastens to its inglorious and repulsive close. While the rest of Western Europe is beginning to breathe the air of the "new learning," which is wafted across the Alps, and to taste the good peace that strong ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... THE HOUSE OF YORK AND THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES The story of the Middle Ages in England hastens to its inglorious and repulsive close. While the rest of Western Europe is beginning to breathe the air of the "new learning," which is wafted across the Alps, and to taste the good peace that strong government alone can give, England is still the prey of fierce baronial factions yearly growing fiercer. Attempts have been made to show Edward IV. as a patron of the "new learning," because he once gave twenty pounds to William Caxton, who set up the first English printing press in his reign: attempts have been made to prove that he anticipated the order-keeping Tudor monarchs, because, like them, he dealt in wholesale executions, torture, martial law, perpetual confiscations, and the like. As a matter of fact he gave England the bloodshed without the order. To my mind Edward was nothing but the fitting head of a very bad political faction, which had waded through blood to honours and riches, and had to maintain them by more blood. It is little justification to say that the usurpation of the house of Lancaster had a precisely similar beginning. Edward had some reasonable qualifications for this position of party leader; that is, he was faithful to those few of his party who served him faithfully, and he gave them rich rewards; he was undoubtedly a first-class soldier, and he was personally brave and careless of 352 CHARACTER OF EDWARD IV danger; he was utterly unscrupulous in deceiving, and utterly cruel in striking down both secret traitors and open enemies when he could discover them: but in the earlier part of his reign, being wholly given up to the grossest forms of self-indulgence, he often walked blindfold into snares which both open...
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