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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume I
- Volume I: A Broken Chain?
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted both an unprecedented campaign in the early 12th century to write (or create) the history of England, and to excavate (and fabricate) pre-Conquest English law.
George Garnett traces the treatment of the Conquest in English historiography, legal theory and practice, and political argument through the middle ages and early modern period, examining the dispersal of these materials from libraries after the dissolution of the monasteries, and the attempts made to rescue, edit, and print many of them in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. These preservation efforts enabled the Conquest to become still more contested in the constitutional cataclysms of the 17th century than it had been in the 11th and 12th. The 17th-century resurrection of the Conquest will be the subject of a second volume.
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- P. J. T. Brown
- 26-01-22
Scholarly - brilliant presentation
No question this is a difficult book and I doubt I’ve retained much more than the drift of the divisions thereby the arguments and a very general appreciation of the development of our laws over the centuries and of course underpinned by the Norman Conquest - in essence if you don’t understand the Norman narrative you understand our legal precedents.
I added this book because it is the cheapest way to acquire it (otherwise £60+) and listened to this as additional information to my interest in the Pastons, their background and also the development of libraries (SEE Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen’s book ‘The library, a fragile history’ (2021) - being particularly interested in the fate of monastic collections after the dissolution - Garnett does touch on this.
I have benefited and gained a much greater appreciation of the upheavals and what would appear to be a sometimes serendipitous approach to our legal history - scholars used what was available, studied and oftentimes commentated with a combination of prejudice and/or ignorance - roll on volume two.
Nigel Patterson’s reading really is outstanding - absolute clarity including his Latin and French pronunciation - translations are also given.
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