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This thorough examination of the feudal powers of English kings in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is the only study to analyze the actual pattern of royal grants and the grantees' use of their rights, and to place them in the social context of marriage, kinship, and landholding within the English elite. The royal rights, known as feu



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*1. MARRIAGE, KINSHIP, AND PROPERTY, pg. 15*2. ROYAL LORDSHIP IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, pg. 64*3. ADMINISTERING ROYAL LORDSHIP, pg. 105*4. THE USES OF ROYAL LORDSHIP, pg. 144*5. GUARDIANS AND WARDS, pg. 194*6. INCENTIVE AND DISCIPLINE: THE POLITICS OF ROYAL LORDSHIP, pg. 232*CONCLUSION, pg. 273*APPENDIX: RECEIPTS OF THE ESCHEATORS, pg. 281*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 287*INDEX, pg. 307

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691601915, 978-0691601915
      ISBN10: 0691601917

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This thorough examination of the feudal powers of English kings in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is the only study to analyze the actual pattern of royal grants and the grantees' use of their rights, and to place them in the social context of marriage, kinship, and landholding within the English elite. The royal rights, known as feu



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*1. MARRIAGE, KINSHIP, AND PROPERTY, pg. 15*2. ROYAL LORDSHIP IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, pg. 64*3. ADMINISTERING ROYAL LORDSHIP, pg. 105*4. THE USES OF ROYAL LORDSHIP, pg. 144*5. GUARDIANS AND WARDS, pg. 194*6. INCENTIVE AND DISCIPLINE: THE POLITICS OF ROYAL LORDSHIP, pg. 232*CONCLUSION, pg. 273*APPENDIX: RECEIPTS OF THE ESCHEATORS, pg. 281*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 287*INDEX, pg. 307

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