The Norman Conquest in English History

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.

• Introduction 1: The Early Twelfth-Century Perspective in English Historical Writing 2: The Audiences for English History in the Early Twelfth Century 3: The Excavation, Reconstruction, and Fabrication of Old English Law in the Twelfth Century 4: Edward the Confessor: From Critical Standard to Patron Saint 5: The Conquest in Historical Writing from the Late Thirteenth Century 6: The Conquest in Later Medieval English Law I: Jurisprudence and Forensic Practice in the Thirteenth Century 7: The Conquest in Later Medieval English Law II: Edward II's Reign and After 8: The Preservation of the Sources for English Medieval History in the Sixteenth Century 9: Elizabethan Study of Old English Law and its Post-Conquest Endorsement 10: The Printing of Twelfth-Century English Historiography, and the Integration of Law with History