A fresh look at the idea of bastard feudalism, deploying little-used records to provide new insights.

This title, first published in 1989, was one of the first to directly address the legal dimension of bastard feudalism. John Bellamy explores the role and vulne

This major work is the most radical reinterpretation of the subject for fifty years. Hicks argues that Bastard Feudalism was far more complex - and positive in

This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcendin