Elliot Kendall
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199542642
- eISBN:
- 9780191715419
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542642.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter discusses the development of the great household's politics during Gower's lifetime. As context for this discussion, it outlines tensions between centralization and uncentralized or ...
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This chapter discusses the development of the great household's politics during Gower's lifetime. As context for this discussion, it outlines tensions between centralization and uncentralized or local politics, concentrating on justice, patronage, and perceived balances of power in landed society. Gower's aristocratic associations are detailed, placing him in a group of Kentish gentry with relatively uncentralized, strongly ‘reciprocalist’ interests. The chapter focuses on the flashpoint of the Merciless Parliament and the coup of the noble Appellants in 1388, and investigates Richard II's ideas of kingship and royal ‘magnificence’, but also takes a wider view of aristocratic politics in relation to the economic crisis that followed the Black Death.Less
This chapter discusses the development of the great household's politics during Gower's lifetime. As context for this discussion, it outlines tensions between centralization and uncentralized or local politics, concentrating on justice, patronage, and perceived balances of power in landed society. Gower's aristocratic associations are detailed, placing him in a group of Kentish gentry with relatively uncentralized, strongly ‘reciprocalist’ interests. The chapter focuses on the flashpoint of the Merciless Parliament and the coup of the noble Appellants in 1388, and investigates Richard II's ideas of kingship and royal ‘magnificence’, but also takes a wider view of aristocratic politics in relation to the economic crisis that followed the Black Death.
THOMAS P. POWER
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203162
- eISBN:
- 9780191675768
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203162.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses Tipperary’s landed society. In the 18th century, there were important structural and personnel changes in the county’s landed class arising from the disposal of the Ormond, ...
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This chapter discusses Tipperary’s landed society. In the 18th century, there were important structural and personnel changes in the county’s landed class arising from the disposal of the Ormond, Everard, and Dunboyne estates in the early part of the century, and, later, from sales on the Mathew and Meade estates. The breakup of the first three estates stemmed from serious indebtedness, the solution to which led to the rise of new families in the landed class; while in the case of the two latter, it led to the establishment of substantial Catholic head-tenants as owners in fee. The changing relationship between levels of income, expenditure, and debt created by the prosperity of the latter half of the century, allowed for a greater solvency among landed families as a whole, in contrast to the economically difficult conditions of the early part of the century. Prosperity widened the base of the landed class, a development which benefited Catholics particularly. Consideration of landed Catholics at the levels of owners in fee, head tenants, and converts demonstrates that they formed an influential section of landed Society.Less
This chapter discusses Tipperary’s landed society. In the 18th century, there were important structural and personnel changes in the county’s landed class arising from the disposal of the Ormond, Everard, and Dunboyne estates in the early part of the century, and, later, from sales on the Mathew and Meade estates. The breakup of the first three estates stemmed from serious indebtedness, the solution to which led to the rise of new families in the landed class; while in the case of the two latter, it led to the establishment of substantial Catholic head-tenants as owners in fee. The changing relationship between levels of income, expenditure, and debt created by the prosperity of the latter half of the century, allowed for a greater solvency among landed families as a whole, in contrast to the economically difficult conditions of the early part of the century. Prosperity widened the base of the landed class, a development which benefited Catholics particularly. Consideration of landed Catholics at the levels of owners in fee, head tenants, and converts demonstrates that they formed an influential section of landed Society.
Lawrence Stone and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206071
- eISBN:
- 9780191676963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206071.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter argues that the years 1540 and 1880 are terminal dates and were in many ways self-selecting. The year 1540 was the moment when the impact of the Dissolution of the Monasteries first ...
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This chapter argues that the years 1540 and 1880 are terminal dates and were in many ways self-selecting. The year 1540 was the moment when the impact of the Dissolution of the Monasteries first began to make itself felt. The transfer during the 1540s and the early 1550s of perhaps a quarter of the land of England from institutional to private hands, and the throwing of it upon the private real-estate market, profoundly affected the whole evolution of English landed society until the end of the nineteenth century and later. The year 1540 was also about the time when the Tudor state had reached the point where it could provide reasonable physical security from armed conflict in the countryside, and at any rate in the Lowland Zone. The country elite, which are the concern of this book, were composed of three overlapping groups. The first was the local power elite, the second was the local status elite, and the third was the local elite of wealth. The country elite therefore include all those from whose ranks such persons might be drawn.Less
This chapter argues that the years 1540 and 1880 are terminal dates and were in many ways self-selecting. The year 1540 was the moment when the impact of the Dissolution of the Monasteries first began to make itself felt. The transfer during the 1540s and the early 1550s of perhaps a quarter of the land of England from institutional to private hands, and the throwing of it upon the private real-estate market, profoundly affected the whole evolution of English landed society until the end of the nineteenth century and later. The year 1540 was also about the time when the Tudor state had reached the point where it could provide reasonable physical security from armed conflict in the countryside, and at any rate in the Lowland Zone. The country elite, which are the concern of this book, were composed of three overlapping groups. The first was the local power elite, the second was the local status elite, and the third was the local elite of wealth. The country elite therefore include all those from whose ranks such persons might be drawn.
Thomas P. Power
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203162
- eISBN:
- 9780191675768
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203162.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This book examines Ireland during the 18th century. It sets out to reconstruct in detail the economic, social, and political history of Tipperary, Ireland’s largest inland county. Using extensive and ...
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This book examines Ireland during the 18th century. It sets out to reconstruct in detail the economic, social, and political history of Tipperary, Ireland’s largest inland county. Using extensive and meticulous research, it examines the growing commercialization of the local economy, the changing composition of landed society, the dynamics of land tenure, sectarian tension, and the emergence of long-term rural unrest. In addition, the book includes a chapter on the revolutionary decade of the 1790s.Less
This book examines Ireland during the 18th century. It sets out to reconstruct in detail the economic, social, and political history of Tipperary, Ireland’s largest inland county. Using extensive and meticulous research, it examines the growing commercialization of the local economy, the changing composition of landed society, the dynamics of land tenure, sectarian tension, and the emergence of long-term rural unrest. In addition, the book includes a chapter on the revolutionary decade of the 1790s.
Matthew Holford
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748632787
- eISBN:
- 9780748651405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748632787.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter outlines the privileges of the liberty, the structure of its landed society and its relations with the ‘state’. It then focuses on the historical traditions associated with the liberty, ...
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This chapter outlines the privileges of the liberty, the structure of its landed society and its relations with the ‘state’. It then focuses on the historical traditions associated with the liberty, the ‘imagined communities’ they nurtured, and how they helped the liberty's privileges to be maintained and developed.Less
This chapter outlines the privileges of the liberty, the structure of its landed society and its relations with the ‘state’. It then focuses on the historical traditions associated with the liberty, the ‘imagined communities’ they nurtured, and how they helped the liberty's privileges to be maintained and developed.
Lawrence Stone and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206071
- eISBN:
- 9780191676963
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206071.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This book sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From a detailed examination of the ...
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This book sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From a detailed examination of the landed elites of three counties between 1540 and 1880, the book comes to radical new conclusions about the landed classes. It describes the strategies of marriage and inheritance evolved by older families to preserve their position and ensure that the number of newcomers was always relatively small. The resulting work is a reassessment of the social, economic, and political history of England since the Reformation.Less
This book sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From a detailed examination of the landed elites of three counties between 1540 and 1880, the book comes to radical new conclusions about the landed classes. It describes the strategies of marriage and inheritance evolved by older families to preserve their position and ensure that the number of newcomers was always relatively small. The resulting work is a reassessment of the social, economic, and political history of England since the Reformation.
Joanna Innes
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198802631
- eISBN:
- 9780191840937
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198802631.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
While Paul Langford was at work researching and writing A Polite and Commercial People, he worked in parallel on a second book, if anything more impressive and original, though less commonly read and ...
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While Paul Langford was at work researching and writing A Polite and Commercial People, he worked in parallel on a second book, if anything more impressive and original, though less commonly read and cited—in part because it is not only highly original, but also dense and allusive. The object of this chapter is to make this other book, Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, more accessible to readers, by locating it historiographically, providing an overview of its arguments, and identifying some issues that it raises that deserve further attention.Less
While Paul Langford was at work researching and writing A Polite and Commercial People, he worked in parallel on a second book, if anything more impressive and original, though less commonly read and cited—in part because it is not only highly original, but also dense and allusive. The object of this chapter is to make this other book, Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, more accessible to readers, by locating it historiographically, providing an overview of its arguments, and identifying some issues that it raises that deserve further attention.
Rachel Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381823
- eISBN:
- 9781781382325
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381823.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This study considers the leisure activities of aristocratic women in the nineteenth century as seen through the prism of the diaries of Lady Charlotte Stopford, daughter of the fifth earl of ...
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This study considers the leisure activities of aristocratic women in the nineteenth century as seen through the prism of the diaries of Lady Charlotte Stopford, daughter of the fifth earl of Courtown. Analysis of Charlotte’s diaries for the ten-year period 1869-1879 suggests that élite Victorian women engaged in a diverse range of leisure activities. However, these were often conducted within the constraints of the landed society’s social conventions, and frequently served an underlying purpose. Thus, the pursuits aristocratic women engaged in varied greatly depending on location, season and age and ranged from the highly formal through to informal, and public to private.Less
This study considers the leisure activities of aristocratic women in the nineteenth century as seen through the prism of the diaries of Lady Charlotte Stopford, daughter of the fifth earl of Courtown. Analysis of Charlotte’s diaries for the ten-year period 1869-1879 suggests that élite Victorian women engaged in a diverse range of leisure activities. However, these were often conducted within the constraints of the landed society’s social conventions, and frequently served an underlying purpose. Thus, the pursuits aristocratic women engaged in varied greatly depending on location, season and age and ranged from the highly formal through to informal, and public to private.
