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The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set
together for the first time. Eleventh-century England suffered two
devastating conquests, each bringing the rule of a foreign king and
the imposition of a new regime. Yet only the second event, the
Norman Conquest of 1066, has been credited with the impact and
influence of a permanent transformation. Half a century earlier,
the Danish conquest of 1016 had nonetheless marked the painful
culmination of decades of raiding and invasion - and more
importantly, of centuries of England's conflict and cooperation
with the Scandinavian world - and the Normans themselves were a
part of that world. Without 1016, the conquest of 1066 could never
have happened as it did: and yet disciplinary fragmentation in the
study of eleventh-century England has ensured that a gulf separates
the conquests in modern scholarship. The essays in this volume
offer multidisciplinary perspectives on a century of conquest: in
politics, law, governance, and religion; in art, literature,
economics, and culture; and in the lives and experiences of peoples
in a changing, febrile, and hybrid society. Crucially, it moves
beyond an insular perspective, placing England within its British,
Scandinavian, and European contexts; and in reaching across
conquests connects the tenth century and earlier with the twelfth
century and beyond, seeing the continuities in England's
Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Angevin elite cultureand
rulership. The chapters break new ground in the documentary
evidence and give fresh insights into the whole historical
landscape, whilst fully engaging with the importance, influence,
and effects of England's eleventh-centuryconquests, both separately
and together. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English Literature and
Fellow and Tutor in English, Worcester College, Oxford; EMILY JOAN
WARD is Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow, Darwin College,
Cambridge. Contributors: Timothy Bolton, Stephanie Mooers
Christelow, Julia Crick, Sarah Foot, John Gillingham, Charles
Insley, Catherine Karkov, Lois Lane, Benjamin Savill, Peter
Sigurdson Lunga, Niels Lund, Rory Naismith, Bruce O'Brien, Rebecca
Thomas, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Elisabeth van Houts, Emily Joan Ward.
Expert coverage and new assessments of the reign of King Stephen,
set in social, political and European context. The turbulent reign
of King Stephen is here subjected to a full assessment by leading
scholars in the field. All of the most important aspects are fully
covered: the impact of developments under Henry I on the origins of
civil war; relations with the continent, as they affected Stephen's
overall strategy and the foundation of religious houses; the
opportunities which lured foreign mercenaries to England;
mid-twelfth century legal developments and trends
inrevenue-raising; baronial and episcopal allegiances; violent
disorder and civil unrest; and the sequence of events which
unfolded during the political crisis of July 1141. Taken together,
they provide the fruits of the most recent research into and the
most up to date interpretations of the intense political and
military activity of the reign. CONTRIBUTORS: MARJORIE CHIBNALL,
JUDITH GREEN, DAVID CROUCH, JANET BURTON, THOMAS BISSON, BRUCE
O'BRIEN, GRAEME WHITE, PAUL DALTON, STEPHEN MARRITT, HUGH THOMAS,
EDMUND KING
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