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.
In an impressive display of scholarship, deploying a diverse range of sources, Professor Garnett shows how the cataclysm of 1066 was not merely a moment in time but the occasion of legal and constitutional controversy, even anxiety, for centuries thereafter. This groundbreaking study will be important reading for students of medieval and early-modern English history, political thought and legal history. * Professor Sir John Baker KC, FBA, University of Cambridge * Immense in its scope and learning, The Norman Conquest in English History is essential and gripping reading for all those interested in medieval historical writing, those considering the early development of the 'Ancient Constitution', and above all for those wanting to understand the legal culture of the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. * Professor John Hudson FBA, University of St Andrews *