TY - BOOK ID - 67142450 TI - Locality and polity PY - 1992 SN - 0521370167 9780521370165 9780521122849 9780511522376 0521122848 0511522371 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Landowners KW - Land tenure KW - History KW - Warwickshire (England) KW - Gentry KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Landowners - England - Warwickshire - History KW - Land tenure - England - Warwickshire - History KW - Warwickshire (England) - Gentry - History KW - History. KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Serfdom KW - Landholders KW - Owners of land KW - Gentry, Landed KW - Landed gentry KW - Squires KW - Upper class UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67142450 AB - This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners - the gentry - in one county in fifteenth-century England. In common with other local studies of the later Middle Ages, it builds upon the seminal work of K. B. McFarlane, looking at the political and social world in the localities from which the nobles drew their power. The book aims to present a rounded picture of the experiences of the gentry, relating their private and their public lives, and their permanent concerns to the changing needs of local and national politics. Its approach is thus both thematic, exploring the main elements, often private in nature, which moulded their public actions, such as marriage, estate management and senses of family, and chronological, presenting a detailed narrative of politics and account of political structures and relationships. The book is intended as a contribution to the history of England as a whole in the fifteenth century and to the study of the long-term development of the English landed classes and the English constitution. ER -