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