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In his history of the wars of the Roses, charting their origins, progress, conclusion and effects, Lander sets the record straight by putting the wars into their contemporary context, basing his argument on the written records of the time, and on the results of modern research and scholarship.

J R Lander is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and one of the foremost authorities on fifteenth-century English political history. Among his other publications are Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth Century England, The Limitation of English Monarchy in the Later Middle Ages, Crown and Nobility 1450-1509, Power and Politics 1450-1509 and Government and Community in England 1450-1509.