The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700 [Paperback]

The book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since G.E.MingayThe Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class(1976). It offers a synthesis of the recent specialist work on this key social and political group, but will also provide a distinctive approach to its subjects through the use of the texts and artefacts by which the gentry sought to fashion themselves.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Illustrations
Introduction
Lineage
The Family Wealth: Income Wealth: Spending Administration Politics Education Civility, Sociability and the Maintenance of Hegemony
The Gentry and the Church Piety and Belief
Conclusion.