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The Medieval Gentry
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Chapter 1: Introduction - A fascination with choice / Chapter 2: Who were the gentry? / Chapter 3: The decision making process / Chapter 4: Gentry, warfare, and violence / Chapter 5: The public domain: service, lordship and principles / Chapter 6: The private domain: locality, neighbourhood and family / Chapter 7: The personal domain: contradictory responses to conflict / Chapter 8: Conclusions

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Original research and new interpretations of the gentry's role in the political and military conflicts of late fifteenth-century England.

About the Author

Malcolm Mercer is Assistant Manager of the Medieval and Early Modern Records Information Service at the National Archives. He has written widely on the late medieval period, and has contributed to two BBC Radio 4 history programmes, 'What If' and 'Making History'. He lives in Croydon, Surrey.

Malcolm Mercer worked at The National Archives, London from 1997 to 2006 as senior medieval records specialist, and then as senior research archivist at Canterbury Cathedral Archives. He is currently curator of Tower history at the Royal Armouries Museum.

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All readers will find new and interesting information ... thanks to a wide trawl of this good modern secondary liteature, the major printed sources and nuggets Mercer has mined in The National Archives.
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