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

ISBN-13: 9780521370165 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 812 str.

Christine Carpenter

Opis

This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners--the gentry--in one county of fifteenth-century England. It looks at all aspects of their lives, including marriage, the family, how they ran their estates and how they made friends and enemies, in an often very turbulent century that saw the reigns of the three Lancastrian kings (Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI), the Yorkist Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III, the first Tudor, Henry VII, and the Wars of the Roses.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Carpenter has undertaken a huge task, and one which must have given her very great intellectual pleasure over the past twenty years. The result is a feast of learning.' Local Population Studies

Spis treści

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.