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

The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previ

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

A series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

This volume of essays seeks to offer a radical re-evaluation of most of our preconceptions about the early-modern English social order. This book attempts to de