Regionalism and revision : the crown and its provinces in England, 1200-1650 / / edited by Peter Fleming, Anthony Gross and J.R. Lander

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio : , : Hambledon Press, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.8/0942/0902
• Soggetto topico: Regionalism - England - History; Central-local government relations - England - History
• Persona (resp. second.): FlemingPeter <1958->; GrossAnthony; LanderJ. R <1921-> (Jack Robert)
• Note generali: "This book had its origins in a conference ... held at Bristol Polytechnic ... in 1990"--Acknowledgements.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Regionalism and Revision; 2 The Significance of the County in English Government; 3 A Crisis of the Knightly Class? Inheritance and Office among the Gentry of Thirteenth-Century Buckinghamshire; 4 Mid Thirteenth-Century Reformers and the Localities: the Sheriffs of the Baronial Regime, 1258-1261; 5 The Commons and the Early Justices of the Peace under Edward III; 6 The Dissolution of St Augustine''s Abbey and the Creation of the Diocese of Bristol ; 7 Sir Thomas Cheyne, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1536-1558: Central Authority and the Defence of Local Privilege8 Purveyance and Politics in Jacobean Leicestershire; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 a
• Titolo autorizzato: Regionalism and revision
• ISBN: 1-4411-3881-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811721803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II