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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.
General editor, v. 1, pt. 1, v. 5, pt. 1-2, v. 8: Joan Thirsk. Includes bibliographies. v. 1, pt. 1. Prehistory. v. 1, pt. II. A.D. 43-1042.-- v. 2. 1042-1350.-- v. 3. 1348-1500, edited by Edward Miller.-- v. 4. 1500-1640, edited by J. Thirsk.-- v. 5. 1640-1750, edited by Joan Thirsk (2 v.) -- v. 7, pt. 1- 2. 1850-1914 -- v. 8. 1914-39, by E.H. Whetham.
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales. Enclosure maps are fundamental sources of evidence in many types of historical inquiries. Although modern historians tend to view these large-scale maps essentially as sources of data on past economies and societies, this book argues that enclosure maps had a much more active role at the time they were compiled. Seen from this perspective of their contemporary society, enclosure maps are not simply antiquarian curiosities, cultural artefacts, or useful sources for historians but instruments of land reorganisation and control which both reflected and consolidated the power of those who commissioned them. The book is accompanied by a fully searchable, descriptive and analytical web catalogue of all parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps extant in public archives and libraries and offers an essential research tool for economic, social and local historians and for geographers, lawyers and planners.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Comprising a description of the important British and Roman Remains in that County. Its Saxon and Danish reminiscences. The Domesday Survey of Shropshire.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.