Pro patriotis : 'Country', 'Countrymen' and Local Solidarities in Late Medieval England

Abstract

'Country' was one of the most important concepts through which values concerning locality were articulated in late medieval England. One's country, usually the area in which one was born, was strongly associated with feelings of loyalty and obligation. These loyalties potentially encompassed all of those originating in one's country – one's 'countrymen' – simply on the basis of shared locality. Like the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, such loyalties could span considerable geographical and social distances. They seem to have been particularly powerful, however, in situations of geographical mobility and displacement, and when the countries concerned were not extensive.

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