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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| 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.