The Norman conquest in English history. Volume I, A broken chain? / George Garnett.
By: Garnett, George [author.]
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resoruce (496 pages) : illustrations (colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191793042 (ebook) :Other title: Broken chain?Subject(s): Great Britain -- History -- Norman period, 1066-1154 -- Historiography | Law -- England -- HistoriographyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198726166DDC classification: 942.02 LOC classification: DA195Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This first volume of 'The Norman Conquest in English History' pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, the volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted both an unprecedented campaign in the early twelfth century to write (or create) the history of England, and to excavate (and fabricate) pre-Conquest English law. Garnett traces the treatment of the Conquest in English historiography, legal theory and practice, and political argument through the middle ages and early modern period, examining the dispersal of these materials from libraries afer the dissolution of the monasteries, and the attempts made to rescue, edit, and print many of them in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This first volume of 'The Norman Conquest in English History' pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, the volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted both an unprecedented campaign in the early twelfth century to write (or create) the history of England, and to excavate (and fabricate) pre-Conquest English law. Garnett traces the treatment of the Conquest in English historiography, legal theory and practice, and political argument through the middle ages and early modern period, examining the dispersal of these materials from libraries afer the dissolution of the monasteries, and the attempts made to rescue, edit, and print many of them in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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