Titlebook: Class and Social Honour; Lords, Knights, and John Scott Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license

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Chivalric Honoursbaron’ and ‘knight’ crystallised as the basis of a social hierarchy of royal honours that lay at the heart of the medieval nobility centred around the idea of chivalry. It is shown that this coexisted with emerging economic class divisions rooted in commercial activity.

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Imperial Honourscy. New honours were created and old honours enlarged to legitimate imperial expansion, to reward military leaders, and to reinforce the quasi-military character of royal honours. This was, however, a period in which the development of new class relations began to undermine the ‘traditional’ honours

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Contested Honoursder was introduced with ‘democratic’ aspirations, but its success was initially limited by corrupt sales of honours and by challenges to the parliamentary power of the aristocracy that was seen as tied to the distribution of honours. The various reform proposals are reviewed, but changes to the powe

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ext, The Upper Classes.Develops a theoretical approach to so.This book develops a theoretical approach to social stratification and applies it to the development of the official system of state honours in Britain. It examines both class and status, and sets out an innovative framework for understand

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Contested Honourstary power of the aristocracy that was seen as tied to the distribution of honours. The various reform proposals are reviewed, but changes to the power of the House of Lords were limited until well into the late twentieth century and reforms in royal honours are still under discussion.

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Book 2024in. It examines both class and status, and sets out an innovative framework for understanding social status – an important but often ignored and misunderstood dimension of social stratification. It is shown that a system of peerages, knighthoods, and other state-based royal honours emerged from feud

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Book 2024ntemporary attempts to reconstruct and renew a system of social honour that reflects contemporary relations of power and class in Britain.. .It will be of interest to scholars and students of class, social inequality and British social structure..