Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England Episode 180, the lives and the

loves of the gentry.

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Last time we talked about how the economy affected things for the lords and masters.

I was now planning to move on to talk about how all this affected the gentry and the

peasantry, but then I said to myself, no David, David, no, that would be quite wrong.

Because look, you spent all that time reading those dryers' dust-to-books on the gentry,

to who owe it to your listeners to make them suffer as much as you did.

So instead folks, Julie, we are going to spend the entire episode on the gentry and their

attitudes and stuff, and we're not even going to think about economic stuff until next

time.

I do have a slightly better defence than, look, I've suffered, so I'm going to make

you suffer too, valid, though every parent knows that to be.

The late 14th and 15th centuries were a period when the idea of gentility as opposed to

knighthood became part of the language.

In fact, by the Statute of Editions in 1413, the term gentleman was formally recognised.

But defining a gentleman is just way harder than any of those other terms.

So we know what a king is, don't we?

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