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Author Noble, Elizabeth (Of N.S.W.), author

Title The world of the Stonors : a gentry society / Elizabeth Noble
Published Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction: Approaching the Stonors and their papers -- The Stonors : a gentry family biography -- Lineage -- Landed estate -- The Stonors' lords -- Early social networks : Judge John to Thomas I -- Later social networks and gentry values : Thomas II and William -- Conclusion: Gentry networks, culture, mentality, and society
Summary The Stonor letters and papers are second in quantity only to the Paston letters. Nevertheless, while studies of the parvenu Pastons of Norfolk abound, no historian has used the Stonor archive to write about this significantly longer-established gentry fam
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Stonor family.
SUBJECT Stonor family fast
Subject Gentry -- England -- Biography
Gentry -- England -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Gentry
Manners and customs
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043320
Oxfordshire (England) -- Social life and customs
Oxfordshire (England) -- Biography
Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- Biography
Subject England
England -- Oxfordshire
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846157790
184615779X