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John Hopton: A Fifteenth Century Suffolk Gentleman (Paperback, New Ed)
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John Hopton: A Fifteenth Century Suffolk Gentleman (Paperback, New Ed)
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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.
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