Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law: The Statutes of Livery, 1390-1520

A fresh look at the idea of bastard feudalism, deploying little-used records to provide new insights. Regulation...
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Author: Gordon McKelvie
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Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law: The Statutes of Livery, 1390-1520 by McKelvie, Gordon

Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law: The Statutes of Livery, 1390-1520

CHF 199.41

Bastard Feudalism, English Society and the Law: The Statutes of Livery, 1390-1520

CHF 199.41
Author: Gordon McKelvie
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A fresh look at the idea of bastard feudalism, deploying little-used records to provide new insights.

Regulation of the distribution of liveries and the practice of retaining, which underpinned the so-called system of bastard feudalism in late medieval England, are the subject of this book. Rather than relying primarily on the records of noble estates, as much previous scholarship has done, it draws on the records of the court of King's Bench, covering all 336 known cases of illegal livery and retaining over 130 years.
The author examines the political events and legal processes surrounding illegal livery, by exploring the nature of the legislation and its enforcement, particularly the relationship between law-making in parliament and law-enforcement in the localities. The wider social and cultural contexts in which the statutes operated are also investigated, along with the legal processes and outcomes of the cases. Finally, the book considers the importance of retaining in the numerous acts of magnate violence during the fifteenth century, how they shaped the Wars of the Roses and the ways in which Henry VII accepted most noble retaining, save the most extreme cases.

Dr GORDON MCKELVIE is a lecturer in History at the University of Winchester

Author: Gordon McKelvie
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 02/21/2020
Pages: 261
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781783274772

About the Author
McKelvie, Gordon: - GORDON MCKELVIE, the principal researcher, is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Winchester and author of Bastard Feudalism, English Society, and the Law (Boydell, 2020).

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