"The Norman Conquest: A New Introduction" by Richard Huscroft
Routledge, Pearson Education, Taylor & Francis | 2013 | ISBN: 1405811552 9781405811552 | 392 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book's broad sweep successfully encompasses wider British and French perspectives to offer a fresh, clear and concise introduction to the events which propelled the two nations into the Middle Ages and dramatically altered the course of history.
The Norman Conquest was one of the most significant events in European history. Over forty years from 1066, England was traumatised and transformed. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was eliminated, foreign elites took control of Church and State, and England's entire political, social and cultural orientation was changed. Out of the upheaval which followed the Battle of Hastings, a new kind of Englishness emerged and the priorities of England's new rulers set the kingdom on the political course it was to follow for the rest of the Middle Ages. However, the Norman Conquest was more than a purely English phenomenon, for Wales, Scotland and Normandy were all deeply affected by it too.
Table of Contents Preface
Money and terminology
References and abbreviations
Maps
Genealogies
Part One: Preliminaries
1. The principal sources
2. Britain and Normandy in the eleventh century
3. The origins of conquest, 991-1066
Part Two: The Norman Conquest
4. Conquest, 1066
5. Conquest consolidated, 1067-1087
6. Conquest confirmed, 1087-1100] 7. The English conquest of Normandy, 1100-1106
Part Three: The impact of conquest] 8. Government and law
9. Lands and armies
10. Economies and families
11. The Church
Part Four: Conclusion
12. Britain and Normandy in 1106 - myths and reality
Suggestions for further reading
Index
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