Managing for posterity : the Norfolk gentry and their estates c.1450-1700 / Elizabeth Griffiths ; edited and with an introduction by Jane Whittle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, Elizabeth, author.

Contributor:

Whittle, Jane, editor.

Series:

Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 21.

Studies in regional and local history ; volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gentry--England--Norfolk--History.

Gentry.

Administration of estates--England--Norfolk--History.

Administration of estates.

England--Norfolk.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Le Strange family and their records

2. The medieval inheritance of the Le Strange estates

3. The Le Strange estate in 1604

4. Winners and losers: Norfolk gentry and estate management, 1590

1625

5. The knowledge economy of the Le Strange family

6. Using knowledge and working with people: building projects on the Le Strange estate

7. Her price is above pearls: family and farming records of Alice Le Strange, 1617

56

8. Draining the coastal marshes of north-west Norfolk: the contribution of the Le Stranges of Hunstanton, 1605

1724

9. William Windham's Green Book, 1673-88: estate management in the later seventeenth century

10. Responses to adversity: the changing strategies of two Norfolk landowning families, c. 1665

1700.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1912260441

9781912260447

9781912260454

191226045X

OCLC:

1277279716

Publisher Number:

99991802788