History GCSE
Estate administration
What Estate administration means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Estate administration
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Collecting rents and dues, keeping accounts and storing produce, so the castle acted as an administrative hub for the lands around it.
Topics that use Estate administration
Related terms
- Baronial power and rebellion
- Change in function over time
- Day-to-day function of castles
- Domestic life in a castle
- Elizabethan remodelling and royal hospitality
- Manorial and honorial justice
- Norman conquest and control
- Royal authority and crown ownership
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