№4-2023-09
DOI: 10.22281/2413-9912-2023-07-04-84-94
Zolotov V.I.
SOCIAL ASPECTS «BASTARD FEUDALISM» IN HISTORY ENGLAND SOCIETY
ON THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
This article is dedicated to a try to comprehend the concept «bastard feudalism» and the reality behind it. The history of the concept and its content are traced. Within the context of scientific-theoretical level of modern historical research relevance of traditional political and legal approaches is evaluated. The fruitfulness of the research base is explained. Using legal acts, author analyzes routine of social confrontation within counties of England. In XIV-XV centuries, House of Commons tried to regulate practice of applying livery’s law to fight against oppressive magnates at local level, in order to provide effective functioning of counties’ administration and to master implementation of laws on elections for the House of Commons. Legal practices for countering violations of laws against livery are analyzed sequentially. These practices are realized in limiting the established tradition of magnates’ ignoring of the legal system and authority’s exercise of powers in the county. Nature of the conflict of main country communities’ social interests is defined. The article sheds light on interest’s confrontation between gentry, lords and royal Council in the beginning of forming absolute monarchy’s elements and originating basis of cooperation among gentry and the Crown, when society formed new concepts of place and role of monarch, new identity of main social groups. A concept of relationship comprehensiveness based on «bastard feudalism» for the Later Middle Ages and disregard for diversity of vertical and horizontal relations in society, their mechanisms and content are evaluated critically.
Keywords: livery, «bastard feudalism», gentry, county, elections in the UK, county administration
Academician I.G. Petrovskii Bryansk State University (Russia)
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