The English and the Norman conquest

Ann Williams

Most books on the Norman conquest concentrate on the conquerors, the Norman settlers who became the ancestors of the medieval English baronage. This book is different, setting out to examine the experience of the lesser English lords and landowners, which has been largely ignored. Ann Williams shows how they survived the conquest and settlement, adapted to foreign customs, and in the process preserved native tradition and culture. Though the great earls and magnates fell with Harold, some of their dependents secured a place in the entourages of their supplanters, or were too useful to the royal administration (based largely on English procedure) to be completely displaced; in the Church, too, a reservoir of English sentiment survived. The testimony of the Anglo-Norman historians who chronicled the Conquest, together with other evidence, including the Domesday Book (based on the English system of local government), are an important source for our knowledge of how the lesser aristocracy and the free landholders felt about, and reacted to, their new masters. Dr ANN WILLIAMSwas until her retirement Senior Lecturer in medieval history at the Polytechnic of North London.

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[目次]

  • The Norman settlement
  • the English revolt
  • the fall of the earls
  • survivors
  • the service of the king
  • holy men and worldly goods
  • remembering the past
  • living in the present.

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書名 The English and the Norman conquest
著作者等 Williams, Ann
出版元 Boydell Press
刊行年月 1995
版表示 New ed
ページ数 xiii, 264 p.
大きさ H234 x W156
ISBN 0851157084
085115588X
NCID BA26077208
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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