Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- 1 The formation of the English gentry
- 2 The roots of the English gentry
- 3 The Angevin legacy: knights as jurors and as agents of the state in the reign of Henry III
- 4 The crisis of the knightly class revisited
- 5 Knights in politics: minor landowners and the state in the reign of Henry III
- 6 Knighthood, justice and the early Edwardian polity
- 7 The explosion of commissions and its consequences
- 8 Identity and the gentry
- 9 Knights, esquires and the origins of social gradation in England
- 10 Crystallisation: the emergence of the gentry
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- 1 The formation of the English gentry
- 2 The roots of the English gentry
- 3 The Angevin legacy: knights as jurors and as agents of the state in the reign of Henry III
- 4 The crisis of the knightly class revisited
- 5 Knights in politics: minor landowners and the state in the reign of Henry III
- 6 Knighthood, justice and the early Edwardian polity
- 7 The explosion of commissions and its consequences
- 8 Identity and the gentry
- 9 Knights, esquires and the origins of social gradation in England
- 10 Crystallisation: the emergence of the gentry
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
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- The Origins of the English Gentry , pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003