Medieval Culture: The Wars Of The Roses

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Medieval culture has always fascinated us so while searching through conflict and compromise topics we came across some of the bloodiest battles in European history The Wars of the Roses was a medieval battle between the York and Lancaster clans.
In order to conduct our research we went to several libraries which provided information and secondary sources. Additionally we also found websites containing the family trees, ancient timelines, major battles, events and people along with “The Cely Archives” a series of archives that were a crucial contribution to our primary source.

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