Books written by George Garnett

  • Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066-1166

    R. Thomson (Toronto, 1977). The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey, ed. C. W. Foster and T. Longley, intro. F. M. Stenton, Lincoln Record Soc., xix (1924). MATTHEW PARIS, Historia Anglorum, ed. F. Madden, 3 vols., RS (London, ...

  • The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction

    The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history.

  • The Norman Conquest in English History: Volume I: a Broken Chain?

    Goscelin of St-Bertin, Historia, miracula et translatio S. Augustini, in Acta sanctorum, Maii vi, ed. D. Papebroch (Antwerp 1688), 377–443. Goscelin of St-Bertin: 'The Liber Confortatorius of Goscelin of St. Bertin', ed.

  • Marsilius of Padua and 'the Truth of History'

    For it is certain that those works of William of Ockham which are concerned with the same subjects as the Defensor pacis were written long after it, ... 143 William of Ockham, A Letter to the Friars Minor and Other Writings, ed.

  • Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066-1166

    635's statement that Aubrey de Vere should have all their assarts free and quit of all pleas 'up to the day on which they had adhered to the service of my lord the count of Anjou and myself'. This might mean that Aubrey and his men had ...

  • Magna Carta

    Ut barones qui fundaverunt abbatias, unde habent cartas regum vel antiquam tenuram, habeant custodiam earum cum vacaverint. [M.C., c. 46.] Si rex Walenses dissaisierit vel elongaverit de terris vel libertatibus, vel de rebus aliis in ...

  • Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt

    Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt George Garnett Fellow and Tutor in Modern History George Garnett, John Hudson ... the claim rejected , such claims usually involve not only normative arguments based on proprietary or personal models ...

  • The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction

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  • The Norman Conquest in English History: Volume I: A Broken Chain?

    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 twelfth century to write (or create) the history of England, and to ...