Download or read book Law Land and Family written by Eileen Spring and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she finds that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class real property inheritance was the exclusion of females. This exclusion was accomplished by a series of legal devices designed to nullify the common-law rules of inheritance under which--had they prevailed--40 percent of English land would have been inherited or held by women. Current ideas of family development portray female inheritance as increasing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but Spring argues that this is a misperception, resulting from an incomplete consideration of the common-law rules. Female rights actually declined, reaching their nadir in the eighteenth century. Spring shows that there was a centuries-long conflict between male and female heirs, a conflict that has not been adequately recognized until now.

Download or read book Clarke s Bibliotheca legum or Complete catalogue of the common and statute law books of the United Kingdom ed by T H Horne written by John Clarke (law-bookseller.) and published by London : Printed for W. Clarke. This book was released on 1819 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GUIDE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO ENGLISH AND FOREIGN HERALDRY AND GENEALOGY written by GEORGE GATFIELD and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliotheca Cooperiana Catalogue of a further portion of the library of Charles Purton Cooper This further portion deposited with Messrs Sotheby Wilkinson will be sold by them in the spring of the ensuing year L P written by Charles Purton Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gentry Culture in Late Medieval England written by Raluca Radulescu and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.

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Download or read book A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works Relating to English Topography written by William Upcott and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A manual for the genealogist topographer antiquary and legal professor written by Richard Sims and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages written by S. H. Rigby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading

Download or read book Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England written by Michael Johnston and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy. The end of the fourteenth century in England witnessed power devolving to the gentry, who became one of the dominant political and economic forces in provincial society. As Johnston demonstrates, this social change also affected England's literary culture, particularly the composition and readership of romance. Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England identifies a series of new topoi in Middle English that responded to the gentry's economic interests. But beyond social history and literary criticism, it also speaks to manuscript studies, showing that most of the codices of the "gentry romances" were produced by those in the immediate employ of the gentry. By bringing together literary criticism and manuscript studies, this book speaks to two scholarly communities often insulated from one another: it invites manuscript scholars to pay closer attention to the cultural resonances of the texts within medieval codices; simultaneously, it encourages literary scholars to be more attentive to the cultural resonances of surviving medieval codices.

Download or read book A Manual for the Genealogist Topographer Antiquary and Legal Professor Consising of Descriptions of Public Records Parochial and Other Registers Wills County and Family Histories Heraldic Collections in Public Libraries Etc Etc written by Richard Sims and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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