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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: 22 May, 2024.
The book deals with the deep roots of the gentry, but argues against views which see the gentry as formed or created earlier. It investigates the relationship between lesser landowners and the Angevin state, the transformation of knighthood, and the role of knights in the rebellion of mid thirteenth-century England. The role of lesser ...
- Peter Roderick Coss
- 2003
The Origins of the English Gentry stems directly from an essay published in Past and Present 147 (May 1995), entitled ‘The Formation of the English Gentry’. In this essay I lamented the lack of conceptual rigour in the use of the term ‘gentry’ and offered a six-point definition. I argued, further, that the gentry was formed in ‘an accelerating process’ between the mid-thirteenth ...
ISBN: 521862673X. Date of Publication: 2003 Price: £50.00 Pages: 341pp. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Place of Publication: Cambridge Reviewer: Michael Hicks. Professor Coss has written a splendid analysis of the changing aristocracy of the two hundred years after 1150 that will be required reading for the next century or so.
The book offers definition and conceptual vigour, and argues that the gentry, a kind of lesser nobility, was formed between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth century. The book deals with the deep roots of the gentry, but argues against views which see the gentry as formed or created earlier.
The Origins of the English Gentry. 1. The formation of the English gentry. In his first foray into the question as to whether there had ever been a peasant society in England Alan Macfarlane distinguished between on the one hand the common-sense or dictionary definition of peasant (‘countryman, rustic, worker on the land’) and on the other ...
and all of them have inspired studies of the gentry; but for none of the three was the gentry the central interest and the lackof rigour in matters of definition may well stem partly from this plain fact. There are no Ford lectures devoted to the origins of the gentry. Meanwhile, there has been much conceptual leaning upon
