| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 462 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. I. Theory and Background -- 1. Introduction -- 2. English Identity before the Norman Conquest -- 3. Normanitas -- 4. Ethnic Identity and Cultural Difference -- 5. A Chronology of Assimilation -- 6. A Chronology of Identity -- 7. Ideology, Prejudice, and Assimilation -- pt. II. Personal Interaction, Assimilation, and Identity -- 8. The Interaction of English and Normans: Methodological Considerations -- 9. The Aristocracy -- 10. English Women and Norman Men -- 11. The Peasants and the Middling Sort -- 12. Townspeople -- 13. The Religious -- Epilogue to Part II -- pt. III. The Reconstruction of English Identity -- 14. The Defence of English Honour -- 15. The Image of England and a Sense of Place -- 16. Royal Government, England, and Englishness -- 17. The English Church, English Saints, England, and the English -- 18. Stereotypes and the Image of the English |
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19. The Image of the Other -- 20. The Intensification and Politicization of English Identity -- Paty IV. Identity and Culture -- 21. History and Identity -- 22. High Culture, Religious Culture, and Ethnicity -- 23. Language, Literature, and Ethnic Identity -- 24. Conclusion -- App. 1. Native English Landholders in the Cartae Baronum -- App. 2. Notable Native Patrilineages and Individuals |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-444) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Social conflict -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
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Group identity -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
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Assimilation (Sociology) -- History -- To 1500
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Normans -- Great Britain
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Anglo-Saxons.
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Anglo-Saxons.
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Ethnic relations.
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Group identity.
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Normans.
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Social conflict.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Norman period, 1066-1154.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056738
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Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- To 1500
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Great Britain -- History -- Plantagenets, 1154-1399.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056749
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199251230 |
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0199251231 |
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9780191719134 |
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0191719137 |
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