{"product_id":"a-gentry-community-leicestershire-in-the-fifteenth-century-c-1422-c-1485-paperback","title":"A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, C.1422 C.1485 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Acheson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAcheson Eric\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRosamond McKitterick\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the fifteenth-century gentry of Leicestershire under five broad headings: as landholders, as members of a social community based on the county, as participants in and leaders of the government of the shire, as members of the wider family unit and, finally, as individuals. Economically assertive, they were also socially cohesive, this cohesion being provided by the shire community. The shire also provided the most important political unit, controlled by an oligarchy of superior gentry families who were relatively independent of outside interference. The basic social unit was the nuclear family, but external influences, provided by concern for the wider kin, the lineage or economic and political advancement, were not major determinants of family strategy. Individualism among the gentry was already established by the fifteenth century, revealing its personnel as a self-assured and confident stratum in late medieval English society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45058751692939,"sku":"9780521524988","price":144.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/L2JjdGttczhIZERNVWJoN0hralNkZz09.webp?v=1767423315","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/a-gentry-community-leicestershire-in-the-fifteenth-century-c-1422-c-1485-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}