Dawn M Hadley is Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK.

• 1 IntroductionD M Hadley and C C Dyer 2 The Norman Conquest and its impact on late Anglo-Saxon townsLetty ten Harkel 3 The Norman Conquest and its influences on urban landscapesKeith D Lilley 4 Conquest, colonisation and the countryside: archaeology and the mid-11th- to mid-12th-century rural landscapeOliver Creighton and Stephen Rippon 5 Manorial farmsteads and the expression of lordship before and after the Norman ConquestMark Gardiner6 Anglo-Saxon towers of lordship and the origins of the castle in EnglandMichael G Shapland7 Scars on the townscape: urban castles in Saxo-Norman EnglandMichael Fradley8 Seeking ‘Norman burials’, evidence for continuity and change in funerary practice following the Norman ConquestElizabeth Craig-Atkins9 Charity and conquest: leprosaria in early Norman EnglandSimon Roffey10 Archaeology and archiepiscopal reform. Greater churches in York diocese in the 11th centuryPaul Everson and David Stocker11 Rewriting the narrative: regional dimensions of the Norman ConquestAleksandra McClain12 The Bayeux Tapestry: window to a world of continuity and changeMichael Lewis13 Cuisine and conquest: interdisciplinary perspectives on food, continuity and change in 11th-century England and beyondBen Jervis, Fiona Whelan and Alexandra Livarda14 Tradition and innovation: lead-alloy brooches and urban identities in the 11th centuryRosie Weetch15 History, archaeology and the Norman ConquestHugh M Thomas

"This important if rather mixed volume constitutes the first sustained, multi-author contextualisation of the Norman Conquest of England in relation to physical and material change across the 11th-century decades."Duncan H Brown, Historic England