LORDSHIP AND LEARNING: STUDIES IN MEMORY OF TREVOR ASTON; ED. BY RALPH EVANS

"The exercise of lordship in England is examined in relation to personal and tenurial dependence, estate management, and changing social and economic conditions. In addition the formation of kingdoms and national identities in early medieval Britain and Ireland and the relationship between lords and peasants in Byzantium are explored. In contributions on medieval education the institutions of late medieval Oxford are reassessed; the provisions made for their archives by medieval corporations and the practical importance of muniments are explained; and material from across western Europe is deployed to show how images were used to convey non-verbal messages to the non-literate."--Jacket.