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Gentry --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- Correspondence --- Swellengrebel, Hendrik, --- Correspondence. --- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) --- History --- Afrikaans literature --- Swellengrebel, Hendrik [jr.]

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John Hopton's adult life spanned the years between 1430 and 1478, reputedly one of the most turbulent periods in English history. He, however, neither seems to have been troubled by the 'Wars of the Roses', nor to have displayed those attitudes normally attributed to the upper classes of the time: unflagging self-esteem, brutal ambition, grasping competitiveness. If his vices were not extravagant, his virtues too were unexceptional, those perhaps of a type of country gentleman we usually associate with a later age. Colin Richmond's book is an attempt to place a particular English gentleman in the framework of the world he knew. It opens with the story of this landless Yorkshireman's acquisition of rich properties in Suffolk, and a discussion of those estates themselves, how they were managed and their yield; it continues with a description of John, his remarkable second wife Thomasin, their family, and their life at Blythburgh.

Arts and Humanities --- History --- Gentry --- Hopton, John. --- Suffolk (England) --- History. --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- County of Suffolk (England) --- Suffolk

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Aristocracy (Social class) --- Aristocratie --- England --- Angleterre --- Nobility --- History --- Gentry --- Noblesse --- Histoire --- -Gentry --- -Nobility --- -Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- #A9203H --- History. --- -History --- Noble class

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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.

Gentry --- -Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- History --- -Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Leicestershire (England) --- -History --- Gentry, Landed --- Leicestershire, Eng. --- Leicestershire --- Leicester (England : County) --- County of Leicestershire (England) --- Rutland (England) --- East Midlands (England) --- History. --- Arts and Humanities

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"Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes of the English Midlands was reshaped--both materially and imaginatively--by parliamentary enclosure and a bundle of other new practices. Outside the Midlands too, local landscapes were remodelled in line with the improving ideals of the era. Yet while we know a great deal about the men who pushed forward schemes for enclosure and sponsored agricultural improvement, far less is known about the role played by female landowners and farmers and their contributions to landscape change.Drawing on examples from across Georgian England, Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830 offers a detailed study of elite women's relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses important questions about propertied women's role in English rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst contributing to wider cultural debates about women's place in the environmental, social and economic history of Britain. It will be of interest to those working in Historical and Cultural Geography, Social, Economic and Cultural History, Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Landscape Studies."--Provided by publisher.

Women landowners --- Women in agriculture --- Gentry --- Gentry. --- Women in agriculture. --- Women landowners. --- History --- 1700-1899. --- Great Britain. --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- Farm women --- Agriculture --- Landowners --- women --- estate --- income