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The Norman Conquest in English History: Volume I: A Broken Chain?

The Norman Conquest in English History: Volume I: A Broken Chain?

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 0198958838
ISBN13: 9780198958833
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 3 2025
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this 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 after 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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