Anglo-Norman England, 1066–1166

✍ Scribed by Marjorie Chibnall

• Publisher: Basil Blackwell
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 and Henry Plantagenet. At the same time the Norman lords came to treat old English traditions as part of their heritage, and the fighting knights of the invading armies took the first steps towards becoming knights of the shire. In examining how these changes occurred, Marjorie Chibnall shows how reform movements in the western church, increasing literacy in government, population growth and changing patterns of trade all played their part in shaping the Anglo-Norman realm.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Maps vi
Preface vii
Introduction 1
PART I. Conquest and Settlement
1. The First Phases of Conquest 9
2. The Moving Frontiers 44
3. Settlement and Succession 54
PART II. Wealth and Government
4. From Domesday Book to the Pipe Rolls 105
5. The Wealth of England 135
PART III. Law and Society
6. Towards a Common Law 161
7. Serfdom and Villeinage: the Manorial Courts 1X4
8. Canon Law and the Church Courts 192
9. Normans and English 208
Epilogue 219
Appendix 1: Claimants to the English Throne 1066-1100 222
Appendix 2: The Ancestors of Henry II 223
Bibliography of Abbreviated Titles 224
Index 232