Relations Into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norfolk England, 1540-1840

by Peter S. Bearman

In Relations into Rhetorics, Peter Bearman demonstrates how the structure of gentry social relations in England underwent a profound social transformation in the period from 1540 to 1640, laying the groundwork for civil war. This transformation undermined kinship, the traditional mechanism of power for local elites, and replaced it with a national system of patronage-clientage that enabled English elites to transcend local politics. In this radical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813519683
• ISBN13: 9780813519685
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.