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The World Before Domesday - The English Aristocracy 900-1066 (Hardcover)
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The World Before Domesday - The English Aristocracy 900-1066 (Hardcover)
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Ann Williams' important new book discusses the dynamics of English
aristocratic society in a way that has not been explored before.
She investigates the rewards and obligations of status including
birth, wealth, the importance of public and royal service and the
need to participate in local affairs, especially legal and
administrative business. This period saw the birth of a 'lesser
aristocracy', the ancestors of the English gentry, the power-house
of society and politics in the late medieval and early modern
periods. Going on to examine the obligations and rewards of
lordship and the relations between lords and their men, Williams
illustrates how status was displayed and covers the importance of
the manorial house, which was at once a home, an estate centre and
a symbol of authority and the insignia of rank in weaponry,
clothing and personal adornment. The growing gap between the
highest rank of society and the lowest, fuelled by underlying
economic developments is also covered. In conclusion she considers
some of the occupations which symbolized and perpetuated lordly
power. Though the upper levels of aristocratic society were swept
away by the Norman settlement, the 'lesser aristocracy' had a much
higher rate of survival and it was this group who began the
manorialization of English society, familiar from the late medieval
period.
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