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A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, C.1422 C.1485

A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, C.1422 C.1485

Acheson, Eric
McKitterick, Rosamond
Eric, Acheson

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth, Book 19

General European HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0521524989
ISBN13: 9780521524988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 30 2003
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book examines the fifteenth-century gentry of Leicestershire under five broad headings: as landholders, as members of a social community based on the county, as participants in and leaders of the government of the shire, as members of the wider family unit and, finally, as individuals. Economically assertive, they were also socially cohesive, this cohesion being provided by the shire community. The shire also provided the most important political unit, controlled by an oligarchy of superior gentry families who were relatively independent of outside interference. The basic social unit was the nuclear family, but external influences, provided by concern for the wider kin, the lineage or economic and political advancement, were not major determinants of family strategy. Individualism among the gentry was already established by the fifteenth century, revealing its personnel as a self-assured and confident stratum in late medieval English society.

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