Gentry Culture in Late-Medieval England

Gentry Culture in Late-Medieval England
Author: Raluca Radulescu
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719068256

Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.

Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England

Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199679789

showing that contrary to the commonly held view that romances are representative of the "popular culture" of their day, in fact such texts appealed primarily to the gentry, England's elite landowners who lacked titles of nobility.

The Great Household in Late Medieval England

The Great Household in Late Medieval England
Author: C. M. Woolgar
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300076875

In the later medieval centuries, a whole range of important social, political and artistic activities took place against the backdrop of the great English households. In this vividly illuminating book, C. M. Woolgar explores the details of life in these great houses. Based on an extensive investigation of household accounts and related primary documents, he examines the daily routines, the weekly and annual patterns, and the life-cycle observances of birth, childhood, marriage, death and burial. He also delineates the major changes that transformed the economy and geography of both lay and clerical households between 1200 and 1500.

The Origins of the English Gentry

The Origins of the English Gentry
Author: Peter Coss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2005-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521021005

Although the gentry played a central role in medieval England, this study is the first sustained exploration of its origins and development between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth century. Arguing against views which see the gentry as formed or created earlier, the text investigates as well the relationship between lesser landowners and the Angevin state; the transformation of knighthood; and the role of lesser landowners in society and politics.

Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688

Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688
Author: Matthew Ward
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030377679

This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era also witnessed changes in how loyalty was developed and expressed. The first section focuses on royal propaganda and expressions of loyalty from the gentry and nobility under the Yorkist and early Tudor monarchs, as well as the fifteenth-century Scottish monarchy. The chapters illustrate late-medieval conceptions of loyalty, exploring how they manifested themselves and how they persisted and developed into early modernity. Loyalty to the later Tudors and early Stuarts is scrutinised in the second section, gauging the growing level of dissent in the build-up to the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. The final section dissects the role that the concept of loyalty played during and after the Civil Wars, looking at how divergent groups navigated this turbulent period and examining the ways in which loyalty could be used as a means of surviving the upheaval.

Political Society in Later Medieval England

Political Society in Later Medieval England
Author: Benjamin Thompson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783270306

Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.

Lordship and Faith

Lordship and Faith
Author: Nigel Saul
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198706197

Lordship and Faith takes as its subject the many hundreds of parish churches built in England in the Middle Ages by the gentry, the knights and esquires, and the lords of country manors. Nigel Saul uses lordly engagement with the parish church as a way of opening up the piety and sociability of the gentry, focusing on the gentry as founders and builders of churches, worshippers in them, holders of church advowsons, and patrons and sponsors of parish communities. Saul also looks at how the gentry's interest in the parish church sat alongside their patronage of the monks and friars, and their use of private chapels in their manor houses. Lordship and Faith seeks to weave together themes in social, religious, and architectural history, examining in all its richness a subject that has hitherto been considered only in journal articles. Written in an accessible way, this volume makes a significant contribution not only to the history of the English gentry but also to the history of the rural parish church, an institution now in the forefront of medieval historical studies.

A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages

A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages
Author: S. H. Rigby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0470998776

This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading

Medieval Maidens

Medieval Maidens
Author: Kim M. Philips
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2003-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719059643

The medieval landscape, as viewed through the eyes of scholars, was hardly populated by women. Particularly, young unmarried women or "maidens" have been paid little attention. This book aims to fill that gap by examining the meaning, experiences and voices of young womanhood. The life-phase of “adolescence” was different for maidens than for young men, and as such merits study in its own right. At the same time a study of young womanhood provides insights into ideals of feminine gender roles and identities at different social levels.