Description: A sustained attempt to explore the 13th-14th century origins of the English gentry.
Brief description: Peter Coss is Professor of Medieval History, School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University.
Review Quotes: "Coss, an authority on knighthood and gentry, has produced for the gentry what K.B. McFarlane did for the aristocracy--a well-documented, well-defined, and well-argued history of a blass that played a central role in medieval England... This is a work of great scholarship.... Essential." Choice