Community, Class and Careers

A study of Cheshire and Lancashire society in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

Michael J. Bennett (Author)

9780521521826, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 October 2003

300 pages
21.7 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.408 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], British & Irish history [HBJD1]