Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century

by Nigel Saul

Overview

Looking in detail at 14th-century Gloucestershire, the author examines the role of the gentry in their communities, government, military service, and the economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198218838
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/08/1981
Series:	Oxford Historical Monographs
Pages:	330
Sales rank:	730,068
Product dimensions:	8.94(w) x 6.46(h) x 1.04(d)

Editorial Reviews

"A very valuable contribution to our understanding of late medieval English society in general."—History

"A major, in ways pioneering, contribution to the history of the lesser nobility."—American Historical Review

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