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“Sires remembre we are neyghbours”: English Gentry Communities in the Fifteenth Century - A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century, c. 1422–1485. By Eric Acheson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii + 290. $59.95. - The Townshends and Their World: Gentry, Law, and Land in Norfolk, c. 1450–1551. By C. E. Moreton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 279. $72.00. - Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401–1499. By Christine Carpenter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii + 793. $125.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Mary L. Robertson
Mary L. Robertson*
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The Huntington Library
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 112 - 118
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1995

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References

1 London, Public Record Office, KB9/405/3. Quoted in Carpenter, p. 581.

2 McFarlane, K. B., “Parliament and ‘Bastard Feudalism,’” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th ser., 26 (1944): 73CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 See esp. Coss, P. R., “Bastard Feudalism Revised,” Past and Present, no. 125 (November 1989), pp. 27–64Google Scholar; and Hicks, Michael, “Bastard Feudalism: Society and Politics in Fifteenth-Century England,” in his Richard III and His Rivals: Magnates and Their Motives in the Wars of the Roses (London: Hambledon, 1991), pp. 1–40Google Scholar. A principal critique of the county community school for the seventeenth century remains Holmes, Clive, “The County Community in Stuart Historiography,” Journal of British Studies 19, no. 2 (Spring 1980): 54–73CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Carpenter, pp. 310, 313, 373, 491, 519–20.