Townshends and Their World - Gentry, Law, and Land in Norfolk C.1450-1551

Zusatztext 'This book is a valuable addition to our knowledge of the English gentry. Two Sir Roger Townshends! father and son! are thoroughly examined; indeed! they are interrogated and duly incriminate themselves as the nuisances only English gentlemen can be.'C.F. Richmond! Klappentext This is the first scholarly history of the rise of the Townshends, one of Norfolk's most famous families. C. E. Moreton exploits to the full the family papers in order to tell the story of individuals like Roger Townshend I, a prominent late medieval lawyer, and his son, also Roger, a leading gentleman of the county. Dr. Moreton traces the growing wealth and power of the Townshends, and sets them in the context of the gentry elite they had joined. Their participation in county government, as well as their lawsuits, estates policy, and sheepfarming reveal much about the gentry and local society in late medieval and early Tudor England. Zusammenfassung A scholarly history of the rise of the Townshends, the most famous landowning family in Norfolk, telling the story of individual members of the family and setting the dynasty in its context. Their activities reveal much about the role of the gentry in late medieval and early Tudor England.

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• Authors: C E Moreton, C. E. Moreton, C. E. (Research Assistant on the Handbook Moreton, C.e. Moreton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.1992
• EAN: 9780198202998
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820299-8
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; England, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours