Description: "This lively, concise, and accessible book digs under the surface of events of the Wars of the Roses to explore the underlying dynamics of a typical civil war. Based on a series of lectures, it includes aids for nonexperts and will interest general readers, as well as historians more generally"--
Brief description: John Watts is Professor of Later Medieval History at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. He is the author of several books and articles on the politics and political culture of later medieval England and Europe, including Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship (1996), and The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300-1500 (2009).
Review Quotes: 'A brilliant, fascinating and profoundly thought-provoking analysis. The new light John Watts sheds on the Wars of the Roses from comparative and structural perspectives will shape debate about the fifteenth century for a long time to come.' Helen Castor, author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV