Autonomy and Community (English, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh | McIntosh Marjorie Keniston | Rosamond McKitterick)

About the Book

This history of the English royal manor of Havering, Essex, illustrates life at one extreme of the spectrum of personal and collective freedom during the later Middle Ages, revealing the kinds of patterns which could emerge when medieval people were placed in a setting of unusual independence. As residents of a manor held by the crown, they profited from royal administrative neglect. As tenants of the ancient royal demesne, they had special legal…

ISBN: 9780521526098