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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Norman Conquest"”.
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The Function of Writs in England before the Norman Conquest
… court culture. Chapter One introduces the pre-Conquest writ corpus, providing a definition of this diplomatic typology alongside a historiographical overview and methodological outline. Chapter Two moves on to deal with the transmission and preservation of Anglo-Saxon writs, analyzing aspects …
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Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250
… castles and discusses their roles as weapons of conquest and structures of administrative control. It is argued that the recognisable change in the form of earthwork castle construction over the 200 year period can be seen as a consequence of changing functions. Although it has not been possible …
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Shropshire Deer Parks c.1500 - c.1914 Recreation, Status and Husbandry
… this thesis aims to fill that gap. Following the Norman Conquest, Shropshire was a semi-autonomous region governed by barons appointed by the king, and subsequently by the Council of the Marches. This study examines regional differences - physical, political, social and economic - but also …
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The Priest's Wife in the Anglo-Norman Realm, 1050-1150
… study of the wives of the clergy in England and Normandy from 1050 to 1150. After the Norman Conquest of England (1066), both regions shared an elite ruling class and the churches shared personnel. However, the different social and political contexts of the English and Norman churches ensured …
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Social Anarchy in the Works of Byron
… to trace its lineage back to the days of the Norman Conquest, become the favorite poet of anarchy and rebellion and of men in revolt against the religious and the moral and the social standards of God and man.
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From the King’s Will to the Law of the Land: English Forest Litigation in the Curia Regis Rolls, 1199-1243
… existed, William I implemented a distinct Anglo-Norman version of forest law after the Norman Conquest in 1066. Forests as a legal term, however, did not solely mean wooded lands. Forests covered many terrains, including pasture or meadow. Forest law evolved from regulations that changed with the …
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The Royal Nunneries in the Landscape of Anglo-Saxon Wessex 871–1066
… of Wessex, from the reign of King Alfred to the Norman Conquest. By examining the nunneries within their changing physical, political and ecclesiastical settings, it attempts to assess the extent to which the nunneries were inward-looking, insular communities and the extent to which they were …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
… Baptist in England during the period between the Norman Conquest and the Henrician Reformation. It seeks to identify the ways in which medieval men and women viewed the Baptist and to place this in the context of veneration for the universal, scriptural saints in the Middle Ages. The chief source …
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Feudal politics in Yorkshire 1066 - 1154.
… a new and more precise chronology for the Norman conquest of Yorkshire and illustrates the importance of castleries and hundreds in the process of take-over. In Chapter 2 the thesis reveals that in the fifty years following the Domesday survey the Normans extended the system of compact …
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The Honour of Wallingford, 1066-1300
… a re-examination of the ways in which post-Conquest political, social, legal and tenurial relations actually operated in society. This allows for a fresh perspective on the impact of the Norman Conquest, the nature and significance of tenurial ties to the social and political organisation of …
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The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241
… to their own legendary past. The Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh-century also brought the insular and Scandinavian worlds closer together, and even after the Norman Conquest in 1066, England and Scandinavia engaged in scholarly and textual exchange The theoretical …
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The Unfree in the Anglo-Norman Realm c.1000-c.1100 with special reference to slavery
… thesis is a comparative study of the unfree in Normandy and England in the eleventh century. The unfree formed a large percentage of the population in these areas, along a scale from the most unfree, the slaves, to the nearest to freedom, arguably the villeins. Although this thesis is concerned …
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
… were chiefly intended as tacit commentary on the Norman Conquest and the means by which unity ought to be pursued. Complementarily, it examines how and why the historians who wrote in the immediate wake of the conquest characterised William, a leader who they suggested was guiding his people to …
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“Þe Inglis in seruage”: Textual Englishness, 1175 – 1330
… formation in the literature produced between the Norman Conquest and the Hundred Years War have addressed the manifold ways English writers imagined and reconstructed the Anglo-Saxon past as a golden era free of the taint of foreign domination. I find the cultural memory of pre-Conquest England to …
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
… period of English history that had predated the Norman Conquest of 1066. These manuscripts had formerly been held in abbeys and religious houses across the country. However, after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s and early 1540s, this material increasingly came into the …
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Cosmetic Theology in England, c. 650–1100: Aldhelm of Malmesbury, the Venerable Bede, and Goscelin of St Bertin
… in the church and Goscelin in the wake of the Norman Conquest—make use of different possibilities for the rhetorical use of modesty to define female virtue and the women’s place in the church. Writing in England, they addressed their instructions on modesty to an audience which held women in …
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Transport and Trade in South Wales c.1100 - c.1400: A Study in Historical Geography
… directly touched by earlier upsets. Prior to the Norman Conquest trade in South Wales had taken place in the open country. By 1400 the dependency that had been built in the preceding three hundred years on the transport and trading network of market towns and rural producers and consumers was …
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Contested identities in discourses of colonialism and civil war: Race, gender, and the human/animal in twelfth-century England and Wales
In the century following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, literary texts operated as a battleground upon which ethnically diverse, multilingual British writers fought to determine what British identity would ultimately become. Through a medieval postcolonial framework, in which power and …
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The Cross-Channel Interests of the Baronage of the Pays de Caux and Cotentin, 1189-1204
The Norman conquest of England in 1066 created a cross-Channel baronage whose personal interests in Normandy and England were an important influence on their subsequent political activities during the reigns of the Norman king-dukes. While there has been extensive scholarship on this theme prior to …
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