Tradition and exclusion: Parochial officeholding in early modern England, a case study from north Norfolk, 1580-1640

Rural History

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-45

  Pitman, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL POWER; RURAL POLITICS; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1942501576     PISSN: 09567933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956793303001079     Document Type: Article

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