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The origins of the English gentry
- Title
- The origins of the English gentry / Peter Coss.
- Author
- Coss, Peter R.
- Publication
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HT658 .C677 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 329 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The book deals with the deep roots of the gentry, but argues against views which see the gentry as formed or created earlier. It investigates the relationship between lesser landowners and the Angevin state, the transformation of knighthood, and the role of knights in the rebellion of mid-thirteenth-century England. The role of lesser landowners in the society and politics of Edwardian England is then put under close scrutiny. The book moves on to explore the effects of the explosion of commissions which took place from the 1290s onwards, the rise of the House of Commons and the emergence of justices of the peace - which produced a varitable partnership in government between the crown and the gentry. Finally it emphasises changes in social terminology and the rise of social gradation, the emergence of the county as an important focus of identity, the gentry's control over the populace, and their openness to the upward mobility of professionals."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Past and present publications
- Uniform Title
- Past and present publications.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-306) and index.
- Contents
- The formation of the English gentry -- The roots of the English gentry -- The Angevin legacy : knights as jurors and as agents of the state in the reign of Henry III -- The crisis of the knightly class revisited -- Knights in politics : minor landowners and the state in the reign of Henry III -- Knighthood, justice and the early Edwardian polity -- The explosion of commissions and its consequences -- Identity and the gentry -- Knights, esquires and the origins of social gradation in England -- Crystallisation : the emergence of the gentry.
- ISBN
- 052182673X
- 9780521826730
- LCCN
- 2004268357
- OCLC
- ocm52286448
- 52286448
- SCSB-8941803
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library