Historians of premodern Europe often think in terms of 'small worlds':
a series of regional societies functioning independently of each
other. This approach works well for isolated areas but is less
obviously applicable to England, the most centralised country in
Europe. How far England was centrally controlled and how far power in
reality remained in the localities are key considerations in
understanding English history both in the middle ages and afterwards.
The essays in Regionalism and Revision all address these questions,
both by analysing how the problem should be approached and by
examining what the exercise of power involved in local terms. Did the
gentry dominate local office by virtue of their intrinsic importance
in their counties or were they dependent for the continuation of their
power and wealth on the renewal of their commissions from the central
government? How did magnates mediate influence at the centre on behalf
of the localities, and how were they repaid for it? How did officials
appointed by the crown, including sheriffs and JPs, react to having to
impose unpopular burdens, such as purveyance, upon the counties?
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9781441138811
Publisert
2015
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Hambledon Continuum
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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