Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

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Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England is written by Spike Gibbs and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009311867 (ISBN 10) and 9781009311861 (ISBN 13).

Providing a new narrative of how local authority and social structures adapted in response to the decline of lordship and the process of state formation, Spike Gibbs uses manorial officeholding – where officials were chosen from among tenants to help run the lord's manorial estate – as a prism through which to examine political and social change in the late medieval and early modern English village. Drawing on micro-studies of previously untapped archival records, the book spans the medieval/early modern divide to examine changes between 1300 and 1650. In doing so, Gibbs demonstrates the vitality of manorial structures across the medieval and early modern era, the active and willing participation of tenants in these frameworks, and the way this created inequalities within communities. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.