Norman London
Norman London is a collection of important studies presented to give a full picture of this city after the Norman Conquest of 1066.  The collection is built around a text from sometime before 1183 in which William Fitz Stephen describes the City of London, its topography, monuments, trades, industries and population.  It is a vivid eye-witness account by one of its own citizens that records the daily life and urban pastimes of its people.  This text, originally written as an introduction to Fitz Stephen’s Life of Thomas Becket, is unique among medieval texts for its attention to the sounds and sights of a cityscape.