Read The Norman Conquest Online
Authors: Marc Morris
3
Carpenter,
Struggle for Mastery
, 128–38.
4
DNB
Edgar Ætheling; OV, v, 270–3; JW, iii, 46–7.
5
D. Bates, ‘Normandy and England after 1066’,
EHR
, 104 (1989), 866–8; Bates,
Conqueror
, no (145/239 months = 60%); R. Bartlett,
England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075–1225
(Oxford, 2000), 12.
6
Van Houts, ‘Norman Conquest Through European Eyes’, 837–8.
7
ASC
E, 1107; WM,
Gesta Regum
, 414–15.
8
Thomas,
English and the Normans
, 203–8; R. Huscroft,
The Norman Conquest: A New Introduction
(2009), 301.
9
Rubenstein, ‘Liturgy Against History’, 282, 289; Garnett,
Short Introduction
, 12.
10
L. Reilly, ‘The Emergence of Anglo-Norman Architecture: Durham Cathedral’,
ANS
, 19 (1997), 335–51. More generally, Fernie,
Architecture
, 34–41.
11
DNB
William of Malmesbury; HH, 4. Lanfranc described himself as a ‘novice Englishman’
(novus Anglicus)
as early as 1073, but was perhaps being ironic.
12
H. M. Thomas, ‘The
Gesta Herwardi
, the English and their Conquerors’,
ANS
, 21 (1998), 213–32. Thomas cautiously dates the
Gesta
to 1109 x 1174, but others (e.g. Williams,
English and the Norman Conquest
, 49n) suggest 1109 x 1131.
13
DNB
William of Malmesbury; I. Short, ‘Patrons and Polyglots: French Literature in Twelfth-Century England’,
ANS
, 14 (1992), 229–30;
DNB
Gaimar.
14
Carpenter,
Struggle for Mastery
, 7–8, 83; Lewis, ‘Domesday Jurors’,
passim;
C.-J. N. Bailey and K. Maroldt, ‘The French Lineage of English’,
Pidgins – Creoles – Languages in Contact
, ed. J. Meisel (Tübingen, 1977), 21–53. Cf. I. Singh,
The History of English: A Student’s Guide
(Oxford, 2005), 127–36.
15
Williams,
English and the Norman Conquest
, 198–200;
Domesday Book
, ed. Williams and Martin, 1147; E. Searle, ‘Women and the Legitimization of Succession at the Norman Conquest’,
ANS
, 3 (1981), 159–71;
EHD
, ii, 176.
16
E. Cownie. ‘The Normans as Patrons of English Religious Houses, 1066–1135’,
ANS
, 18 (1996), 47–62; B. Golding, ‘Anglo-Norman Knightly Burials’,
Medieval Knighthood I
(1986), 35–48.
17
Crouch,
Normans
, 160;
Handbook of British Chronology
, ed. E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy (3rd edn, 1986), 235; WM,
Gesta Regum
, 8–9, 716–17.
18
ASC
E, 1137.
19
I. Short, ‘
Tam Angli quam Franci:
Self-Definition in Anglo-Norman England’,
ANS
, 18 (1996), 172; Barlow,
Confessor
, 280–1;
VER,
xxxvii.
20
Ashe,
Fiction and History
, 32–3.
21
Bartlett,
England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings
, 12.
22
Ashe,
Fiction and History
, 11–14, offers a good short summary. For more extensive treatments, see J. Hudson, The Formation of the English Common Law (1996) and P. Brand,
The Making of the Common Law
(1992).
23
Short,
‘Tam Angli’
, 155–8;
EHD
, ii, 523.
24
Ibid.; Carpenter,
Struggle for Mastery
, 6–7. The quote is from
Magna Vitae Sancti Hugonis
, ed. D. L. Douie and D. H. Farmer (2 vols., Oxford, 1961), ii, 113–14, where ‘timid’ is translated as ‘scrupulous’.
25
Carpenter,
Struggle for Mastery
, 8; S. Reynolds,
Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe, 900–1300
(Oxford, 1997), 268.
26
D. A. Carpenter, ‘King Henry III and Saint Edward the Confessor: The Origins of the Cult’,
EHR
, 122 (2007), 865–91; R. M. Wilson, ‘English and French in England, 1100–1300’,
History
, 28 (1943), 46, 56; Morris,
Great and Terrible King, passim
.
27
Holt, ‘Colonial England’, 13; Williams,
English and the Norman Conquest
, 217–18.
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