David Crouch 
Image of Aristocracy [PDF ebook] 
In Britain, 1000-1300

David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a British, rather than Anglocentric, view — looking at the penetration of Welsh and Scottish society by Anglo-French ideas of aristocracy.