George Garnett

The Norman Conquest in English History (eBook, ePUB)

Volume I: A Broken Chain?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 first 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. These preservation efforts enabled the Conquest to become still more contested in the constitutional cataclysms of the seventeenth century than it had been in the eleventh and twelfth. The seventeenth-century resurrection of the Conquest will be the subject of a second volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191039157
• Artikelnr.: 61265997

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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