Peter Coss, Coss Peter

The Origins of the English Gentry

Herausgeber: Roper, Lyndal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A sustained attempt to explore the 13th 14th century origins of the English gentry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521021005
• ISBN-10: 0521021006
• Artikelnr.: 21303278

Autorenporträt

Peter Coss is Professor of Medieval History, School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
1. The formation of the English gentry
2. The roots of the English gentry
3. The Angevin legacy: knights as jurors and as agents of the state in the reign of Henry III
4. The crisis of the knightly class revisited
5. Knights in politics: minor landowners and the state in the reign of Henry III
6. Knighthood, justice and the early Edwardian polity
7. The explosion of commissions and its consequences
8. Identity and the gentry
9. Knights, esquires and the origins of social gradation in England
10. Crystallisation: the emergence of the gentry
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.