Locality and Polity - A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499

Klappentext This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners - the gentry - in one county in fifteenth-century England. Zusammenfassung This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners - the gentry - in one county in fifteenth-century England. In common with other local studies of the later Middle Ages! it builds upon the seminal work of K. B. McFarlane! looking at the political and social world in the localities from which the nobles drew their power. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Note on text; 1. Introduction; Part I. Structural: 2. Geography, economy and regional identity; 3. Who were the gentry?; 4. Social mobility and the creation of estates; 5. The exploitation of estates; 6. Expenditure and dispersal; 7. Conclusions: land, family and lineage; 8. The local officers; Part II. Chronological: 9. Social and political networks 1401-50; 10. Warwickshire under Richard Beauchamp: 1401-39; 11. The interregnum: 1439-49; 12. The period crisis I: Warwickshire under the Kingmaker: 1449-61; 13. The period of crisis II: Warwickshire under the Kingmaker and the Duke of Clarence: 1461-78; 14. The period of crisis III: Warwickshire under the crown: 1478-85; 15. The period of crisis IV. Warwickshire under the crown: 1485-99; 16. Politics and society c. 1449-1500; 17. Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Christine Carpenter, Christine (University of Cambridge and Carpenter, Carpenter Christine, Carpenter Christine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521122849
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12284-9
• No. of pages: 812
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Warwickshire, West Midlands, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Medieval History, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval