Noble

(1983) and

Rich Noble, Poor Noble (1988). First two volumes of an unfinished trilogy,

The European Nobility,

a quite indispensable compendium of comparative information.

Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk, and E. P. Thompson (eds.),

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800 (1976). Contains essays of first-rate importance.

Frederic Cople Jaher (ed.),

The Rich, the Well Born and the Powerful (1973). Wide chronological range of informative essays.

Robert Lacey,

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