Courts and the community : reconstructing the fourteenth-century peasant society of Wisbech Hundred, Cambridgeshire, from manor court rolls
This thesis assesses afresh the feasibility of social reconstruction based on court rolls, through a methodologically self-conscious analysis of records from Wisbech Hundred. It identifies a recent historiographical movement away from social history towards a 'legal' orthodoxy justified in...
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University of Leicester
1998
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.696533 |