List of figures and tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
Note on text
1. Introduction
Part I. Structural: 2. Geography, economy and regional identity
3. Who were the gentry?
4. Social mobility and the creation of estates
5. The exploitation of estates
6. Expenditure and dispersal
7. Conclusions: land, family and lineage
8. The local officers
Part II. Chronological: 9. Social and political networks 1401-50
10. Warwickshire under Richard Beauchamp: 1401-39
11. The interregnum: 1439-49
12. The period crisis I: Warwickshire under the Kingmaker: 1449-61
13. The period of crisis II: Warwickshire under the Kingmaker and the Duke of Clarence: 1461-78
14. The period of crisis III: Warwickshire under the crown: 1478-85
15. The period of crisis IV. Warwickshire under the crown: 1485-99
16. Politics and society c. 1449-1500
17. Conclusions
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.
