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English society in the later Middle Ages, 1348-1500 / Maurice Keen.
- Title
- English society in the later Middle Ages, 1348-1500 / Maurice Keen.
- Author
- Keen, Maurice Hugh.
- Publication
- London : Penguin Books, 1990.
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- Description
- xv, 332 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- A presentation of the social history of Britain, from 1348-1500, describing medieval society, with its rigid stratifications of nobility and peasant, and the transition to the beginning of the early modern period.
- Series Statement
- Penguin social history of Britain
- Uniform Title
- Penguin social history of Britain
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Social Hierachy and Social Change -- Part I: The Third Estate: The Commons -- Plague, Depopulation and Labour Shortage -- The Life of the Countryside -- Towns, Trade and Urban Culture --Westminster and London -- Part II: The Second Estate: the "Chivalry" -- The Hundred Years War and its Effects on Society and Government -- The Aristocracy at Home: Household, Estates and Family -- Aristocratic Violence: from Civil Strife to Forcible Entry -- Part III: The First Estate: the Clerks -- The Spread of Literacy -- The Clerical Estate -- Popular Religion -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0140124926 (pbk)
- OCLC
- 22178914
- SCSB-11585381
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library