The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700
Felicity Heal, Clive Holmes
Barcode 9780333527290
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Release Date: 10/10/1994
Genre: History
Label: Red Globe Press
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since G.E.Mingay The Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976). The book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since G.E.Mingay The Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976). It offers a synthesis of the recent specialist work on this key social and political group, but will also provide a distinctive approach to its subjects through the use of the texts and artefacts by which the gentry sought to fashion themselves.