Horses and the Aristocratic Lifestyle in Early Modern England : William Cavendish, First Earl of Devonshire (1551-1626) and His Horses.
Through a study of horses, the book reveals how an important and growing aristocratic estate was managed, where the aristocrat at the centre of it - William Cavendish - travelled and how he spent his time, and how horses were one of the means by which he asserted his social status.
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Melton :
Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated,
2018.
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