The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066 - c. 1220

This is an important new study of the impact of the Norman Conquest. It provides the first full explanation of how the English and the Normans merged to become the same people. The author draws on anthropological theory, the latest scholarship on Anglo-Norman England, and sources ranging from legal documents to romances. "This is an important new study of the impact of the Norman Conquest. It provides the first full explanation of how the English and the Normans merged to become the same people. The author draws on anthropological theory, the latest scholarship on Anglo-Norman England, and sources ranging from legal documents to romances."-- Provided by publisher This work challenges the complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066. Drawing on a variety of sources, it provides a case study in pre-modern ethnic relations, shedding light on some important developments in English history.