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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 October 2009
      25 June 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511560194
      9780521524988
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511560194
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.419kg, 312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (19)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (19)
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    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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