Locality and Polity : A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401–1499 (Paperback)

List of figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Note on text; 1. Introduction; Part I. Structural: 2. Geography, economy and regional identity; 3. Who were the gentry?; 4. Social mobility and the creation of estates; 5. The exploitation of estates; 6. Expenditure and dispersal; 7. Conclusions: land, family and lineage; 8. The local officers; Part II. Chronological: 9. Social and political networks 1401?50; 10. Warwickshire under Richard Beauchamp: 1401?39; 11. The interregnum: 1439?49; 12. The period crisis I: Warwickshire under the Kingmaker: 1449?61; 13. The period of crisis II: Warwickshire under the Kingmaker and the Duke of Clarence: 1461?78; 14. The period of crisis III: Warwickshire under the crown: 1478?85; 15. The period of crisis IV. Warwickshire under the crown: 1485?99; 16. Politics and society c. 1449?1500; 17. Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.