The Cambridge companion to the age of William the Conqueror / edited by Benjamin Pohl, University of Bristol.
| Other author/creator | Pohl, Benjamin, 1985- |
| Other author/creator | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University press, 2022. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
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| Series | Cambridge companions to culture |
| Contents | Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Studying the age of William the Conqueror (Prologue) / Benjamin Pohl -- Normandy and the Continent / Alheydis Plassmann -- England and the insular world / Alex Woolf and Neil McGuigan -- Scandinavia and the North Sea World / Michael H. Gelting -- Landscape and settlement / Katherine Weikert -- Church and society / Richard Allen -- Trade and travel / Eljas Oksanen -- Family and kinship / Laura L. Gathagan -- Nobility and aristocracy / Daniel Booker and S.D. Church -- Kingship and consensus / Björn Weiler -- Law and justice / Emily Tabuteau -- Warfare and violence / Matthew Strickland -- History and memory / Benjamin Pohl and Elisabeth van Houts -- Language and literacy / Keith Busby -- Schools and education / Mia Münster-Swendsen -- The legacy of William the Conqueror and his age today (Epilogue) / David Bates -- Bibliography (incl. recommended readings) -- Index nominum et locorum. |
| Abstract | "'That the history of England for the last eight hundred years has been what it has been has largely come of the personal character of a single man [...], and that man was William, surnamed at different stages of his life and memory, the Bastard, the Conqueror, and the Great'. Writing in 1888, Edward Augustus Freeman, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, made it his 'special business' to furnish his readers with an account of English history viewed through the deeds and character of a single man whom he deemed one of the greatest statesmen of all time. For Freeman and many of his colleagues, history was fundamentally a matter of statesmanship, written and wrought by the acts of great men and determined by their personality and character. An altogether different mentality was expressed by Freeman's close contemporary, Karl Marx, who opened his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte with the observation that 'human beings make their own history, yet they do not make it at will in circumstances chosen freely, but in the circumstances in which they find themselves, which are dealt to and inherited by them'."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022012733 |
| ISBN | 9781108482974 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook other) |
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