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At a time when the Battle of Hastings and Magna Carta have become common currency in political debate, this study of the role played by the Norman Conquest in English history between the eleventh and the seventeenth centuries is both timely and relevant.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Early Twelfth-Century Perspective in English Historical Writing
- 2: The Audiences for English History in the Early Twelfth Century
- 3: The Excavation, Reconstruction, and Fabrication of Old English Law in the Twelfth Century
- 4: Edward the Confessor: From Critical Standard to Patron Saint
- 5: The Conquest in Historical Writing from the Late Thirteenth Century
- 6: The Conquest in Later Medieval English Law I: Jurisprudence and Forensic Practice in the Thirteenth Century
- 7: The Conquest in Later Medieval English Law II: Edward II's Reign and After
- 8: The Preservation of the Sources for English Medieval History in the Sixteenth Century
- 9: Elizabethan Study of Old English Law and its Post-Conquest Endorsement
- 10: The Printing of Twelfth-Century English Historiography, and the Integration of Law with History
About the author
George Garnett is Fellow and Tutor in History, St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Professor of Medieval History in the University. He read History at Queens' College, Cambridge, was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Fellow and Director of Studies at Magdalene College, and Senior Proctor of Oxford University in 2015-16. He has published two earlier books on the Norman Conquest and also works on medieval and early modern thought.
Summary
At a time when the Battle of Hastings and Magna Carta have become common currency in political debate, this study of the role played by the Norman Conquest in English history between the eleventh and the seventeenth centuries is both timely and relevant.
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As these long and deep influences imply, the Conquest in the intellectual mind of the nation is a truly vast topic, one whose tentilla reach into the historical crevices of many centuries. Only a brave historian would have undertaken it – and only a brilliant one could have done it justice. George Garnett has done it justice.
