Community, Class and Careers

by Michael J. Bennett

Overview

This study of Cheshire and Lancashire society in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries is a unique attempt to reconstruct the social life of an English region in the later Middle Ages. Drawing on the voluminous archives of the two palatinates and the extensive muniment collections of local families, it offers an unusually rich and wide-ranging analysis of a dynamic regional society at a dramatic stage in its history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521521826
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series , #18
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

List of maps and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Genealogical table; Introduction; 1. The regional society; 2. The county communities; 3. Lesser solidarities; 4. The population; 5. Landed society; 6. The peasantry; 7. Towns, trade and industry; 8. The church; 9. Military service; 10. Power, patronage and provincial culture; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.