The Norman Conquest in English history. Volume I, A broken chain? / George Garnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garnett, George, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--England--History.

Law.

Great Britain--History--Norman period, 1066-1154.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resoruce (496 pages) : illustrations (colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

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.

Contents:

The early twelfth-century perspective in English historical writing

The audiences for English history in the early twelfth century

The excavation, reconstruction, and fabrication of old English law in the twelfth century

Edward the Confessor: from critical standard to patron saint

The conquest in historical writing from the late thirteenth century

The conquest in later medieval English law I: jurisprudence and forensic practice in the thirteenth century

The conquest in later medieval English law II: Edward II's reign and after

The preservation of the sources for English medieval history in the sixteenth century

Elizabethan study of old English law and its post-conquest endorsement

The printing of twelfth-century English historiography, and the integration of law with history.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2020.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-103915-2

0-19-179304-3

0-19-103914-4