| Contents | |||
| Preface | ix | ||
| Maps | xii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part I The Ranks of the Nobility | |||
| 1 | Kings and the titled nobility | 29 | |
| 2 | The peerage | 55 | |
| 3 | The gentry | 69 | |
| Part II Servants, lands and the family | |||
| 4 | Households and councils | 87 | |
| 5 | Estates in land | 104 | |
| 6 | Property, the family, and money | 124 | |
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| Conclusion: Political society in fourteenth-century England | 160 | ||
| Abbreviations | 180 | ||
| Notes | 181 | ||
| Bibliography | 209 | ||
| Index | 216 | ||