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Feudal Wardship

Feudal Wardship is a legal and administrative arrangement within the feudal system whereby a lord assumes custody and control of a fief and its tenant’s heir during the heir’s minority, encompassing the rights to manage the estate’s revenues and arrange the heir’s marriage until coming of age.

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Parenthood and Social Reproduction: Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa

Robert Launay, Esther N. Goody · Man · 1982 · 321 citations

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Parenthood and Social Reproduction: Fostering and Occupational Roles In West Africa

Lucy Mair, Lucy Mair · African Affairs · 1982 · 109 citations

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Free consent and marriage of feudal wards in medieval England

Sue Sheridan Walker · Journal of Medieval History · 1982 · 60 citations

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Parens Patrice and Wardship Powers: Their Nature and Origins

John Seymour · Oxford Journal of Legal Studies · 1994 · 16 citations

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Lordship and Law in Medieval England - The Lordship of England: Royal Wardships and Marriages in English Society and Politics, 1217–1327. By Scott L. Waugh. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. Pp. xv + 327. $44.50. - From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England. By J. M. W. Bean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 279. $35.95. - Bastard Feudalism and the Law. By J. G. Bellamy. Portland, Ore.: Areopagitica Press, 1989. Pp. iii + 208. $39.95. - Kingship, Law, and Society: Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V. By Edward Powell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 319. $65.00. - Lordship and the Urban Community: Durham and Its Overlords, 1250–1450. By Margaret Bonney. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 307. $45.50.

Robert Bartlett · Journal of British Studies · 1991 · 13 citations

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    Sue Sheridan Walker

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 60 citations

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    Esther N. Goody

    1 publications · 321 citations

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  3. RB
    Robert Bartlett

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. LM
    Lucy Mair

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 218 citations

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  5. RL
    Robert Launay

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, United States

    1 publications · 321 citations

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  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

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  1. African Affairs

    1 publications · 109 citations

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  2. Man

    1 publications · 321 citations

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  3. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  4. Journal of Medieval History

    1 publications · 60 citations

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  5. Journal of British Studies

    JBS · 1 publications · 13 citations

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