8 avril 2018
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Simon Adams, « The English Military Clientele 1542-1618 », Publications de l’Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion, ID : 10670/1.yt55ix
Over the past two decades a scholarly consensus has formed over the way in which the clientele evolved in England between 1500 and 1640. During the sixteenth century, it is claimed, a "bastard feudal" network of aristocratic affinities was replaced by clienteles formed by court-based patronage. This argument has its attractions, but it is based on a limited appreciation of the function of the patronage of the crown in the sixteenth century. The study of the Tudor military clientele suggests a...