The Norman Conquest in English History

George Garnett is Fellow and Tutor in History, St Hugh's College, Oxford, and Professor of Medieval History in the University. He read History at Queens' College, Cambridge, was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Fellow and Director of Studies at Magdalene College, and Senior Proctor of Oxford University in 2015-16. He has published two earlier books on the Norman Conquest and also works on medieval and early modern thought.

• Introduction1: The Early Twelfth-Century Perspective in English Historical Writing2: The Audiences for English History in the Early Twelfth Century3: The Excavation, Reconstruction, and Fabrication of Old English Law in the Twelfth Century4: Edward the Confessor: From Critical Standard to Patron Saint5: The Conquest in Historical Writing from the Late Thirteenth Century6: The Conquest in Later Medieval English Law I: Jurisprudence and Forensic Practice in the Thirteenth Century7: The Conquest in Later Medieval English Law II: Edward II's Reign and After8: The Preservation of the Sources for English Medieval History in the Sixteenth Century9: Elizabethan Study of Old English Law and its Post-Conquest Endorsement10: The Printing of Twelfth-Century English Historiography, and the Integration of Law with History

This first volume of George Garnett's projected tripartite study is an important contribution to a growing literature on later English perceptions of the Norman Conquest.