The Norman conquest in English history. Volume I, A broken chain? /

"This study pursues a central theme in English historical thinking--the Norman Conquest--over seven centuries. This first volume, which covers more than half a millennium, explains how and why the experience of the Conquest prompted both an unprecedented campaign in the early twelfth century to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garnett, George (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The early twelfth-century perspective in English historical writing
  • The audiences for English history in the early twelfth century
  • The excavation, reconstruction, and fabrication of old English law in the twelfth century
  • Edward the Confessor: from critical standard to patron saint
  • The conquest in historical writing from the late thirteenth century
  • The conquest in later medieval English law I: jurisprudence and forensic practice in the thirteenth century
  • The conquest in later medieval English law II: Edward II's reign and after
  • The preservation of the sources for English medieval history in the sixteenth century
  • Elizabethan study of old English law and its post-conquest endorsement
  • The printing of twelfth-century English historiography, and the integration of law with history.