ISBN:
9781526148261
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 220 Seiten)
Edition:
1. published by Manchester University Press 2005; 1. reprinted 2013
Series Statement:
Manchester medieval studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gentry culture in late-medieval England
DDC:
305.523209420902
Keywords:
Gentry England
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Nobility England
;
History
;
To 1500
;
England Intelectual life
;
1066-1485
;
England
;
Gentry
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1250-1500
Abstract:
After many years at the margins of historical investigation, the late medieval English gentry are widely regarded as an important and worthy subject for academic research. This book aims to explore the culture of the wide range of people whom we might include within the late medieval gentry, taking in all of landed society below the peerage, from knights down to gentlemen, and including those aspirants to gentility who might under traditional socio-economic terms be excluded from the group. It begins by exploring the origins of, and influences on, the culture of the late medieval gentry, thus contributing to the ongoing debate on defining the membership of this group. The book considers the gentry's emergence as a group distinct from the nobility, and looks at the various available routes to gentility. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behaviour, and education, it seeks to provide an overview of how the group's culture evolved, and how it was disseminated. The book offers a broad view of late medieval gentry culture, which explores, reassesses and indeed sometimes even challenges the idea that members of the gentry cultivated their own distinctive cultural identity. The evolution of the gentleman as a peer-assessed phenomenon, gentlemanly behaviour within the chivalric tradition, the education received by gentle children, and the surviving gentry correspondence are also discussed. Although the Church had an ambivalent attitude toward artistic expression, much of the gentry's involvement with the visual arts was religious in focus.
Note:
Includes bibliography (p. 183-208) and index. - Formerly CIP
DOI:
10.7765/9781526148261
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