Kings and Lords in Conquest England

Name: Kings and Lords in Conquest England
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ISBN: 9780521393096

ISBN-10: 0521393094

ISBN-13: 9780521393096

Edition: 1991

Authors: Robin Fleming

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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…

Book details

List price: $67.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/5/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 279
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


Preface


List of abbreviations



Cnut's Conquest



Landholding and alliance in late Saxon England



Cnut's conquest and the destruction of the royal kindred



New men and the waning of the West Saxon monarchy



The Norman Conquest



Domesday Book and the tenurial revolution



Territories and time



Private enterprise and the Norman settlement



Aristocratic landholding and royal power in the eleventh century


Bibliography


Index