TY - JOUR
AU - Arnstein, Walter L.
AB - journal of social history fall 1999 possession ofland and their authority over the people living on it. He next offers a chapter on the relations between the monarchs and the nobles, particularly emphasizing the advisory role of the aristocrats in the royal court during its constant peregrinations. His account of the relations of monarchs and the aris­ tocrats stresses the honors and grants that kings and queens bestowed on favored nobles, and the confiscation and exile that could befall those nobles who lost that favor. A discussion of aristocrats as elite warriors occupies a special chapter that covers both their activity as knights in battle and their role as controllers of castles, which in the twelfth century were near their height as military rna, chines and often determined military and social control in local areas. Finally, Barton treats the relations of the aristocrats and the church, at a time when proprietary churches and lay patronage were still common. In addition to the detailed footnotes, the scholarly apparatus occupies the last third of the book. There is an extensive bibliography, brief biographical sketches of the counts of twelfth,century Leon and Castile, a series of genealogies, and a selection of charters. 
TI - Land and Society in Edwardian Britain. By Brian Short (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvii plus 378pp. $69.95)
JO - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1353/jsh.1999.0005
DA - 1999-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/land-and-society-in-edwardian-britain-by-brian-short-new-york-VlESGxpkri
SP - 230
EP - 232
VL - 33
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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