
This book is the first comprehensive account for twenty years of the interaction between English and Norman traditions and institutions following the Conquest. The first century of Anglo-Norman feudalism saw the 'rise of administrative kingship' under William, his sons, and Stephen...

Historians have long debated the significance of the Norman Conquest. Did it mark the imposition of an alien and repressive regime on "free Englishmen"? Or did England benefit from the uniting of two separate and disparate cultures and civilizations? Marjorie Chibnall, one of...
