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Vor 2 Tagen · Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 521862673X; 341pp.; Price: £50.00. Reviewer: Professor Michael Hicks. King Alfred's University College, Winchester. Citation: Professor Michael Hicks, review of The Origins of the English Gentry, (review no. 402) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/402. Date accessed: 2 June, 2024.
28. Mai 2024 · While England experienced some continental influence during the early 15th century, by the mid 17th century England had become only peripherally significant politically and militarily. As Loïc Bienassis writes, the common historical perspective is that by the time of the Thirty Years War, Britain held a ‘secondary place’ in ...
21. Mai 2024 · Journal Article. What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ * Matthew Firth. The English Historical Review, ceae078, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae078. Published: 21 May 2024. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’.
I was reading that the English gentry saw it as their duty to preserve Anglo Saxon culinary traditions. But why did they focus on Anglo Saxon culinary traditions so long after everyone had become English, and where did their sense of duty in this regard come from?
Vor 3 Tagen · The gentry and nobility who led the long English struggle for a constitutionalism to hem in the Crown – climaxing with the Civil wars of 1640s and more durably with the 1688 Glorious Revolution – may well have been capitalist, in so far as their income derived from farming organised for exchange and profit – but they were in no more a ‘bourgeoisie’ than the nineteenth-century ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Christopher Dillon. The English Historical Review, ceae088, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae088. Published: 25 May 2024 Section: Book Review. Extract. View article. What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’. Matthew Firth. The English Historical Review, ceae078, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae078.
25. Mai 2024 · Born into the English gentry, Elizabeth caught the eye of King Edward IV and married him in secret in 1464, just a year after he had taken the throne during the Wars of the Roses [21]. As queen, Elizabeth worked to advance the interests of her own family, the Woodvilles, who were seen as upstarts by the established nobility.
