Book review: Prazdnikov A.G. People of the Wars of the Scarlet and White Rose. Composition and Behavior Patterns of Active Participants of the Socio-Political Conflict in England in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century, St. Petersburg, 2023, 560 p.

The review is devoted to the book by A.G. Prazdnikov “People of the Wars of the Scarlet and White Roses. Composition and Models of Behavior of Active Participants in the Socio-Political Conflict in England in the Second Half of the 15th Century”. The book is divided into three parts. Main factual material of the book presented in the second and third parts. The author singled out two generations of active participants in the Wars of the Roses, identified their social similarities and differences. The third part of the monograph examines the participation in the Wars of the Roses, representatives of various social groups (nobility, nobility, clergy and townspeople) were engaged. The nobility was the most active in the conflict, but one-third of its representatives were excluded from its participation. The author made a stratification analysis of the gentry who participated in the Wars of the Roses, and concluded that, unlike secular lords, only a minority of them took an active part in them. In conclusion, the author notes that the Wars of the Roses had the character of a national conflict.