Political Society in Lancastrian England

ISBN-13: 9780198202097 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 296 str.

Simon Payling

Opis

This is a study of the political and social structure of late medieval England. Dr Payling examines the wealth and political influence of a dozen Nottinghamshire families who dominated their county during the first half of the fifteenth century. His analysis shifts the historical emphasis from the barons at the head of their affinities to the greater gentry as members of well-defined shire establishments. This carefully researched study reassesses the nature of baronial-gentry relations, and establishes the true extent of the influence of the greater gentry. His book is both an important addition to local studies and a major contribution to the historiographical debate on the role of the gentry in late medieval England.

This study of the political and social structure of late medieval England examines the wealth and political influence of a dozen Nottinghamshire families who dominated their county during the first half of the 15th century. It reassesses the nature of baronial-gentry relations, and establishes the true extent of the influence of the greater gentry.

Recenzje

'The work is inevitably painstaking, deeply grounded in the minutiae of estate muniments and property disputes and local administrative structures... Payling has produced a model study of one county, to take its place with the best of the genre.' L. R. Poos, Speculum Journal of Medieval Studies, April 1994

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations; The balance of property; The composition of the County elite; The County elite: development and kinship; The baronage and bastard feudalism; Office-holding and the King's affinity; Parliamentary elections and the County bench; Aristocratic crime and the regulation of local conflict; Conclusion; Appendices: I. Nottinghamshire tax returns of 1412; II. Tax assessments of £40 p.a. and over in 1436 And 1451; III. Knightly families resident in Nottinghamshire; IV. Geneological tables; V. Social status and office-holding; VI. The King's affinity in Nottinghamshire; VII. Nottinghamshire elections 1407-1460; Select bibliography; Index