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A Gentry Community - Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, c.1422-c.1485 (Paperback, Revised)
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A Gentry Community - Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, c.1422-c.1485 (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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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.
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