Professor John Watts
Professor of Later Medieval History
Corpus Christi College
Chair of the History Faculty Board
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John Watts is interested in politics, political culture and political structures in later medieval England and Europe, between the 13th and the early 16th centuries. Most of his published work deals with later medieval English politics and political culture, but he has also written about politics in later medieval Europe. He is currently working on a book for the New Oxford History of England series, provisionally entitled 'Renaissance England, 1461-1547'.
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Towards a Comparative History of Political Communication, c.1000-c.1500
January 2020|Chapter|Political Communication in the Medieval World -
‘Political Life
January 2020|Chapter|The Shorter Oxford History of Later Medieval Europe -
Politics, c.1000-1500: Mediation and Communication
December 2018|Journal article|The Global Middle Ages, ed. C. Holmes and N. Staden, Past and Present Annual Supplement -
The Problem of the Personal: Tackling Corruption in Later Medieval England, 1250-1550
February 2018|Chapter|Anti-corruption in History From Antiquity to the Modern EraThe book addresses a wide range of historical contexts: Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Eurasia, Italy, France, Great Britain and Portugal as well as studies on anticorruption in the Early Modern and Modern era in Romania, the Ottoman ... -
Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.1540
December 2016|Journal article|Proceedings of the British Academy
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