The Norman Conquest in English History

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. * Professor Sir John Baker KC, FBA, University of Cambridge *
Immense in its scope and learning, The Norman Conquest in English History is essential and gripping reading for all those interested in medieval historical writing, those considering the early development of the 'Ancient Constitution', and above all for those wanting to understand the legal culture of the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. * Professor John Hudson FBA, University of St Andrews *
It is a densely packed and richly detailed study which engages with an enormous array of primary material, carefully tracing the textual transmission, manuscript histories and printed editions of a wide range of works. The amount of information in each paragraph, and sometimes each sentence, necessitates careful reading, but also rewards it. * William Eves, The English Historical Review *
As these long and deep influences imply, the Conquest in the intellectual mind of the nation is a truly vast topic, one whose tentilla reach into the historical crevices of many centuries. Only a brave historian would have undertaken it and only a brilliant one could have done it justice. George Garnett has done it justice. * Alex Burghart, Times Literary Supplement *