This account of the changing relationship between lords and peasants in medieval England challenges many received ideas about the "origins of the manor", the st

Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring changes wrough

Studies focusing on medieval lordship and education. The exercise of lordship in England is examined in relation to personal and tenurial dependence, estate man

In recent years, work on the medieval English peasant has tended to stress the degree of interaction between the village and the world beyond its bounds. This b

Providing a new narrative of how local authority and social structures adapted in response to the decline of lordship and the process of state formation, Spike