The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages
Subtitle: The Fourteenth-Century Political Community
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 21, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415148832
First sentence: Before 1337, the only heritable title in England apart from the king's was that of earl, and for the most part English kings had been extremely cautions about creating earldoms.