Title: The nobility of later medieval England: the Ford lectures for 1953 and related studies,
Authors: McFarlane, K. B.
Publisher: Clarendon Press,
Year: 1973
Subjects: Nobility Great Britain; Nobility Great Britain History; England Social conditions
Contents: 1. The English Nobility -- i. General Considerations -- ii. The Nobility and War -- iii. The Nobility and the Land -- iv. The Land and the Family -- v. Expenditure -- vi. Service, Maintenance and Politics -- Appendix A. The Stratification of the Nobility and Gentry in the Later Middle Ages -- Appendix B. The Hungerford Family and the Hundred Years War -- Appendix C. Aspects of Noble Finances -- Appendix D. The Continuity of Great Estates -- 2. Extinction and Recruitment -- Appendix A. Plague and the Nobility -- Appendix B. The Rate of Extinction of Noble Families -- 3. The Wars of the Roses and the Financial Position of the Higher Nobility -- 4. The Beauchamps and the Staffords -- 5. Landlord vs. Minister and Tenant -- 6. The Education of the Nobility in Later Medieval England -- 7. Had Edward I a 'Policy' towards the Earls? -- 8. The English Nobility in the Later Middle Ages.