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 oneof the means by which he asserted his social status.