This is a study of landholding and alliance in England in the years 950 to 1086, a period in which the fortunes of lay lords and their families rose and fell dramatically. It was also a period of dizzying tenurial change, in which the fluctuations in landed wealth and alliances shed light on the economic and geographic balance between the monarchy and the aristocracy, and on how this balance helped shape Conquest England. A number of key historical issues are investigated: the impact of Cnut's conquest on England, the quality of Edward the Confessor's kingship, the means by which the Norman settlement was carried out, and the effects on England of William's conquest. The book will become the standard work on the often volatile relationship between the king and the great lords in this key transitional period, and is one of the most stimulating and original contributions to Conquest studies.
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This is a study of landholding and alliance in England in the years 950 to 1086, a period of dizzying tenurial change, in which the ebb and flow of landed wealth and alliances sheds light on the economic and geographic balance between the monarchy and the aristocracy, and on how this balance helped shape England, its monarchy and its institutions. -- Book Description
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This is a study of landholding and alliance in England in the years 950 to 1086. It will become the standard work on the often volatile relationship between the king and the great lords in this key transitional period.
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records, in exhausting and imaginative detail, the descent of King Alfred's father through Woden, Noah, Enoch and Adam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comital holdings, secular fees, half commended, territorial fees, hundredal grants, terra regis, antecessorial grants, freeman commended, tenurial revolution, demesne holdings, territorial grants, land pleas, comital families, tenurial patterns, first attests, third penny, royal kindred, sub verbo, tenurial arrangements, early charters, landholding patterns, customary dues, royal demesne, half hides, royal genealogies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Domesday Book, King Edward, Earl Godwine, Edward the Confessor, Norman Conquest, Earl Harold, Count of Mortain, William the Conqueror, King William, Geoffrey de Mandeville, East Anglia, West Saxon, Bishop of Bayeux, William de Warenne, Old English, Roger de Bully, Alan of Richmond, Anglo-Saxon England, William Peverel, William Malet, William of Poitiers, Old Minster, Penenden Heath, Roger the Poitevin, Count Alan New!
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records, in exhausting and imaginative detail, the descent of King Alfred's father through Woden, Noah, Enoch and Adam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comital holdings, secular fees, half commended, territorial fees, hundredal grants, terra regis, antecessorial grants, freeman commended, tenurial revolution, demesne holdings, territorial grants, land pleas, comital families, tenurial patterns, first attests, third penny, royal kindred, sub verbo, tenurial arrangements, early charters, landholding patterns, customary dues, royal demesne, half hides, royal genealogies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Domesday Book, King Edward, Earl Godwine, Edward the Confessor, Norman Conquest, Earl Harold, Count of Mortain, William the Conqueror, King William, Geoffrey de Mandeville, East Anglia, West Saxon, Bishop of Bayeux, William de Warenne, Old English, Roger de Bully, Alan of Richmond, Anglo-Saxon England, William Peverel, William Malet, William of Poitiers, Old Minster, Penenden Heath, Roger the Poitevin, Count Alan New!
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- Edward the Confessor (English Monarchs Series) by Frank Barlow on 13 pages
- William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England (English Monarchs) by David C. Douglas on 11 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England) by Sir Frank M. Stenton on 10 pages
- William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella: The Contemporary History (Oxford Medieval Texts) by William of Malmesbury on 6 pages
- Domesday England by H. C. Darby on 5 pages
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- Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Toronto Old English Studies) by Alice Sheppard on 5 pages
- House of Godwine: The History of Dynasty by Emma Mason on 5 pages
- Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend by Daniel Donoghue on page 129, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Janet Burton on page 184, Back Matter, and Index
- Colonisation and Conquest in Medieval Ireland: The English in Louth, 1170-1330 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Brendan Smith in Front Matter, Back Matter, and Index
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