Autonomy and Community - The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200-1500

Zusammenfassung This history of the English royal manor of Havering! Essex! illustrates life at one extreme of the spectrum of personal and collective freedom during the later Middle Ages! revealing the kinds of patterns which could emerge when medieval people were placed in a setting of unusual independence. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Havering, the Crown and External Control, 1200-1500: 1. Royal profit and the privileges of the ancient demesne, 1200-65; 2. External demands and Havering's resistance, 1265-1500; Part II. Economic Independence and its Consequences, 1251-1460: 3. Differentiated landholding and the population, 1251-1460; 4. A commercial economy, 1350-1460; Part III. Community, Conflict and Change, 1352-1500: 5. The manor court and the resolution of local problems, 1352-1460; 6. New problems, new solutions: the liberty of Havering-Atte-Bower, 1460-1500; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: McIntosh Marjorie Keniston, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston (University of Colorad Mcintosh, Marjorie Keniston (University of Colorado McIntosh
• Assisted by: Rosamond McKitterick (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521526098
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52609-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History