The English Nobility under Edward the Confessor

ISBN-13: 9780198204428 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 400 str.

Peter A. Clarke

Opis

This is a study of the major landholders of England and their estates during the reign of Edward the Confessor. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the lay landholders recorded in Domesday Book. Peter A. Clarke examines not only the great earls but also lesser lords with significant holdings, and the complex network of relationships based on land. As well as Domesday, Dr Clarke makes full use of all other available evidence, such as chronicles and charters, and skilfully builds a detailed and convincing picture of landholding and lordship in eleventh-century England. He assesses the impact of the Norman Conquest, contrasting conditions under Edward the Confessor with those of the Norman regime.Dr Clarke's work marks a significant advance in knowledge and understanding of medieval England, and its extensive and detailed appendices of landholders and their estates will form an invaluable reference resource.

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the lay landholders of England in the period immediately before the Norman Conquest. Peter A. Clarke builds a detailed and convincing picture of patterns of landholding and lordship, and compares conditions under Edward the Confessor with those of the Norman regime which followed. His work marks a significant advance in knowledge and understanding of medieval England, and the book's extensive and detailed appendices of landholders and their estates will form an invaluable reference resource.

Recenzje

Clarke now makes a good proportion of the available evidence more accessible by bringing together in two massive appendices well over half the volume... Dr Clarke has provided a book that will be helpful to all interested in the comtinuing debates on the nature of late Anglo-Saxon society and the consequences of the Norman Conquest.