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Maurice Keen.
English Society in the Later Middle Ages.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 15th impression (previously issued 1990).
Series: Penguin Social History of Britain.
ISBN 0140124926;
ISBN-13: 9780140124927.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Antony Rowe, Chippenham.
Size: 128x198x22mm.
Page count: xv,332pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks somewhat battered, some marks and creases on the covers, remnants of a large-ish sticker on the back, some faint creasing on the spine; some light staining on the page edges; at least 11 pages have some pencilled marking.

This item £9.50
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Weight without packaging: 292g.

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Contents: Social hierarchy & social change;
3rd estate — the commons: Plague, depopulation & labour shortage; Life of the countryside; Towns, trade & urban culture; Westminster & London;
2nd estate — the 'chivalry': Hundred Years War & its effects on society & government; Aristocracy at home — household, estates & family; Aristocratic violence — from civil strife to forcible entry;
1st estate — the clerks: Spread of literacy; Clerical estate; Popular religion.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: infrequent, at foot of page
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

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