As these long and deep influences imply, the Conquest in the intellectual mind of the nation is a truly vast topic, one whose tentilla reach into the historical crevices of many centuries. Only a brave historian would have undertaken it – and only a brilliant one could have done it justice. George Garnett has done it justice.
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.