Boyles Court Guide 1880

This wonderful book contains names and town and country abodes of nobility and gentry. Includes a pull out map of the West End of London in 1880.    

Price:  £15.11

Debating England's Aristocracy in the 1790s

The 1790s saw a lively `French Revolution Debate' in England, with much space and intellectual energy, in classic texts by men such as Burke and Paine, and ensuing pamphlet literature, devoted characterisations and representationsof the aristocracy; yet this is the first full-scale survey of the subject. Dr Goodrich takes a fresh approach to the topic, illustrating the complexities of the bitter battle fought out in such texts between radicals and loyalists, and highlighting the persistent viciousness and vitriol of a radical anti-aristocratic rhetoric. However, she demonstrates that the loyalist response contained the more innovative campaign, bringing out in particular the development of a commercial loyalism which promoted a new model of society with a modern aristocracy and an open elite; what emerges are English defences of aristocracy which are not simply reducible to ideas of an ancien rgime or a Gothic institution.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93275-7

Price:  £40.00

Edward III and the English Peerage

Patronage was central to medieval kingship, and a crucial facet of royal power. This book, the first in-depth examination of this crucial facet of royal power, offers a detailed analysis of how Edward III, one of the most successful and, to use a modern term, charismatic of medieval English monarchs, used royal favour to create a 'new nobility' and to reward and control the established peerage. Dr Bothwell shows how judicious use of largesse helped to produce domestic stability and encouraged the successful prosecution of foreign wars. Further, the study demonstrates how the nature of royal patronage came to reflect changes in feudalism, land law, finance, and the Church and the consequences of these changes for the more general history of medieval patronage, the evolution of the Lords and Commons, and the state of royal power both at the centre and in the localities. Overall, it is a clear, concise study of how Edward III used patronage to reposition the monarchy after the vicissitudes of his father's reign and a problematic minority. J.S. BOTHWELL is Lecturer in Later Medieval English History, University of Leicester.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83047-4

Price:  £45.00

Kelly's 1890 Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

An alphabetical listing of the titled, landed and official classes. Each name in the book has a brief summary of their genealogy and career. Fully searchable, so you might even pick up on ancestors and connections you weren't expecting.    

Price:  £12.13

Kelly's 1892 Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

A huge volume with over 1200 pages containing the details of thousands of people from all over Britain, including genealogical, personal, military and career information. Listed alphabetically and fully searchable.    

Price:  £13.62

Kelly's 1927 Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

A huge volume with over 1800 pages containing the details of thousands of people from all over Britain, including genealogical, personal, military and career information.    

Price:  £13.62

Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia

The period between the late tenth and late twelfth centuries saw many changes in the structure and composition of the European and English aristocracy. One of the most important is the growth in local power bases and patrimonies at the expense of wider property and kinship ties. In this volume, the author uses the organisation of aristocracy in East Anglia as a case-study to explore the issue as a whole, considering the extent to which local families adopted national and European values, and investigating the role of local circumstances in the formulation of regional patterns and frameworks. The book is interdisciplinary in approach, using anthropological, economic and prosopographical research to analyse themes such as marriage and kinship, social mobility, relations between secular and ecclesiastical lords, ethnic groups, and patterns of economic growth amongst social groupings; there is a particular focus too on how different landscapes - fenland, upland, coastal and urban - affected the pattern of aristocratic experience. Dr ANDREW WAREHAM is a Research Associate at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83155-6

Price:  £45.00

Lordship and Community

This book is a detailed study of a village community during the first half of the sixteenth century, concentrating particularly on the little-researched relationship between the villagers and their resident landlord. Using contemporary records it looks at all aspects of the lives of the people living in the village and attempts to recreate the framework in which they lived and operated and which shaped their physical and emotional existence. Respectively both the gentry and the `ordinary people' of the early modern period have frequently been subjects of historical research: Oestmann uses many of the techniques and ideas developed by these studies to analyse the interaction of these groups -here the Lestrange family with the inhabitants of Hunstanton. He discusses what drove the relationship and how the presence of the Lestrange family affected the village community.
CORD OESTMANN studied at the Centre of East Anglian Studies, Norwich (M.A.), and Gottingen University (Ph.D.).   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15351-3

Price:  £45.00

Lordship and Learning

The exercise of lordship in England is examined in relation to personal and tenurial dependence, estate management, and changing social and economic conditions. There are papers on the formation of kingdoms and national identities in early medieval Britain and Ireland, on Anglo-Saxon lordship, and on lords and peasants in Byzantium. In contributions on medieval education the institutions of late medieval Oxford are reassessed; the provisions made for their archives by medieval corporations, and the practical importance of muniments explained; and, at the other end of the spectrum, material from across western Europe is deployed to show how images were used to convey non-verbal messages to the non-literate.
Contributors MARGARET ASTON, TREVOR ASTON, PAUL BRAND, JEREMY CATTO, T.M. CHARLES-EDWARDS, PETER COSS. RALPH EVANS, ROSAMOND FAITH, I.M.W. HARVEY, P.D.A. HARVEY, JAMES HOWARD-JOHNSTON, ERIC JOHN, N.E. STACY, MALCOLM UNDERWOOD.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83079-5

Price:  £50.00

Lordship in the County of Maine, c.890-1160

The social and political meaning of lordship in western France in the tenth and eleventh centuries is the focus of this study. It analyses the development and features of lordship as it was practiced and experienced in Maine and the surrounding regions of France, emphasizing the social logic of lordship (why it worked as it did, and how it was socially justifiable and even necessary) and the role of honour and charisma in shaping lordship relationships. The vision and chronology of tenth- and eleventh-century lordship on offer here departs from the model of 'feudal mutation', and emphasizes two major themes - the centrality of intangible, charismatic elements of honor, prestige and acclamation, and the lack of foundation for any notion of 'feudal transformation': while acknowledging changes in the geography of power across the tenth and eleventh centuries, the argument insists that the practicalities of the practice of lordship remained essentially the same between 890 and 1160. RICHARD E. BARTON is assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83086-3

Price:  £45.00

Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe

The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of 'nobility', its relationship with thelate Roman world, its acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military obligation, and its transformation into a more or less willing instrument of royal government. Embracing regions as diverse as England (beforeand after the Norman Conquest), Italy, the Iberian peninsula, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Romano-German empire, it ranges over the whole medieval period from the fifth to the early sixteenth century.
Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, MARTIN AURELL, T. N. BISSON, PAUL FOURACRE, PIOTR GORECKI, MARTIN H. JONES, STEINAR IMSEN, REGINE LE JAN, JANET N. NELSON, TIMOTHY A REUTER, JANE ROBERTS, MARIA JOAO VIOLANTE BRANCO, JENNIFER C. WARD   paperback   ISBN 978-0-851-15882-2

Price:  £16.99

O'Hart's Irish & Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry

This is one of O'Hart's main publications of family pedigrees from Ireland. In this volume he focuses mainly on families who settled in Ireland from Britain from the medieval period up to the 19th century ...     ISBN 1-84630-032-0

Price:  £17.60

Order and Equipoise

Dr McCahill contends that the role of the House of Lords in the 18th and 19th centuries and that of the peers in their individual capacities has hitherto been underestimated.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-05044-1

Price:  £40.00

Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland 1790

A wonderful little leather bound book published in 1790 that lists all of the Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland. Many coats of arms illustrated (mainly of the most important families), and thousands of names.    

Price:  £12.13

Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland 1790

A wonderful little leather bound book published in 1790 that lists all of the Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland. Many coats of arms illustrated (mainly of the most important families).    

Price:  £12.13

The Court as a Stage: England and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages

In the past half-century, court history has lost the air of frivolity that once relegated it to the margins of serious historical study and has rightfully taken a central part in the study of European states and societies in the age of personal monarchy. Yet it has been approached from so many different angles and appropriated to so many different models that it can be hard to put all our new understandings together to achieve a proper perspective on the functions of the court as a whole. This collection of essays uses the idea of the court as a stage for social and political interaction to re-integrate different styles of court history, focusing on courts in England and the Low Countries from the age of Richard II and Albert of Bavaria to that of Elizabeth I and Philip II. Themes studied include the relationship between court politics and cultural change, the social and political functions of court office-holding, the military, judicial and propagandist roles of the court, the economic relationships between courts and cities and the wider social and political significance of court rituals and traditions.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83191-4

Price:  £45.00

The English and the Norman Conquest

Most books on the Norman conquest concentrate on the conquerors, the Norman settlers who became the ancestors of the medieval English baronage. This book is different, setting out to examine the experience of the lesser English lords and landowners, which has been largely ignored. Ann Williams shows how they survived the conquest and settlement, adapted to foreign customs, and in the process preserved native tradition and culture.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-851-15708-5

Price:  £16.99

The Peerage of England 1741 & 1750

A Genealogical Account and Historical Account of all the Peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation. Descendants and collateral lines. Births, marriages and issues. Famous acts. Deaths, places of burial, monuments... and more.    

Price:  £25.49

The Peerage of the British Empire

An extremely comprehensive book containing the names, details and genealogies of hundreds of Peers of the Realm.    

Price:  £15.11

The Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne L

In October and November of 1501, the Tudor court devised a festival to celebrate the marriage of Henry VII's eldest son, Prince Arthur, to Katharine of Aragon, daughter of the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. The Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne is a detailed account of the event, probably compiled as an offical memorial.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22298-0

Price:  £35.00

Thoughts on the Disqualification of the Eldest sons of the Peers of Scotland

Reflections of Lord Alexander Saltoun, Advocate.    

Price:  £12.13