This concise and interpretative 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 non-experts and will interest general readers, as well as historians more generally.
This concise and interpretative 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 non-experts and will interest general readers, as well as historians more generally.
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The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture
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).
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Acknowledgements and Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The civil wars we think we know: narrativity and politics 2. Reform and the common weal 3. Logics of political division 4. Political economy and civil conflict 5. Geographies of contention Conclusion Maps The royal family tree Dramatis Personae Chronology of the wars Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgements and Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The civil wars we think we know: narrativity and politics 2. Reform and the common weal 3. Logics of political division 4. Political economy and civil conflict 5. Geographies of contention Conclusion Maps The royal family tree Dramatis Personae Chronology of the wars Bibliography Index.
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