From Minster to Manor: the Early History of Bredon

King, Vanessa. 2012. From Minster to Manor: the Early History of Bredon. In: David Roffe, ed. The English and their Legacy, 900–1200: Essays in Honour of Ann Williams. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781843837947 [Book Section]

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Over the last fifty years Ann Williams has transformed our understanding of Anglo-Saxon and Norman society in her studies of personalities and elites. In this collection, leading scholars in the field revisit themes that have been central to her work, and open up new insights into the workings of the multi-cultural communities of the realm of England in the early Middle Ages. There are detailed discussions of local and regional elites and the interplay between them that fashioned the distinctive institutions of local government in the pre-Conquest period; radical new readings of key events such as the crisis of 1051 and a reassessment of the Bayeux Tapestry as the beginnings of the 'Historia Anglorum'; studies of the impact of the Norman Conquest and the survival of the English; and explorations of the social, political, and administrative cultures in post-Conquest England and Normandy. The individual essays are united overall by the articulation of the local, regional, and national identities that that shaped the societies of the period. Contributors: S.D. Church, William Aird, Lucy Marten, Hirokazu Tsurushima, Valentine Fallan, Judith Everard, Vanessa King, Pamela Taylor, Charles Insley, Simon Keynes, Sally Harvey, K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, David Bates, Emma Mason, David Roffe, Mark Hagger.

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Book Section

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History

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2012Published

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12019

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07 Jul 2015 14:07

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27 Jun 2017 10:24

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/12019

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