Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Spike Gibbs

doi:10.1017/9781009311847

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Spike Gibbs, Universität Mannheim, Germany

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: July 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009311847
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009311847
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: British History 1066-1450, British History after 1450, History
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (121)

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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.

Winner, 2024 Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize, British Agricultural History Society

Short-listed, 2024 Whitfield Book Prize, Royal Historical Society

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