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English
Oxford University Press
28 March 2025
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 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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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9780198958833
ISBN 10:   0198958838
Pages:   496
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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

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 *


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