The English and the Normans
Subtitle: ethnic hostility, assimilation, and identity, 1066-c. 1220
By: Hugh M. Thomas.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Plantagenet, House of.; Social conflict -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.; Group identity -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.; Assimilation (Sociology) -- History -- To 1500.; Normans -- Great Britain.; Anglo-Saxons.; Great Britain -- History -- Norman period, 1066-1154.; Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- To 1500.; Great Britain -- History -- Plantagenets, 1154-1399.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-444) and index.