Table of Contents

Introduction
Land and Power
Lordship and Society
Office-Holding
The Haliwerfolc and the Politics of Community
Epilogue

Reviews

An extremely learned and thoughtful study. [.] Liddy has made an absolutely major contribution to our understanding of the longest lived and most curious political and constitutional structure ever to have evolved in the medieval North.
*NORTHERN HISTORY*

A valuable study [and] a triumph of archival research and the imaginative use of alternative sources. [...] A fine and mature work of scholarship.
*THE RICARDIAN*

A fine book, which has significance for the history of later medieval England beyond the banks of the Tyne and the Tees.
*NOTTINGHAM MEDIEVAL STUDIES LIII*

All historians of the period should be grateful for Christian Liddy's book.
*JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*