The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700

ISBN-13: 9780333527290 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 489 str.

Dr. Felicity Heal;Clive Holmes

Opis

The book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since G.E.Mingay The Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976). It offers a synthesis of the recent specialist work on this key social and political group, but will also provide a distinctive approach to its subjects through the use of the texts and artefacts by which the gentry sought to fashion themselves.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- Illustrations.- Introduction.- Lineage.- The Family Wealth: Income Wealth: Spending Administration Politics Education Civility, Sociability and the Maintenance of Hegemony.- The Gentry and the Church Piety and Belief.- Conclusion.