Volume 7, Number 8 · November 17, 1966
Happy Anniversary
By R.W. Southern
The History of the Norman Conquest of England
by E.A. Freeman
6 vols. pp.
Feudal England
by J.H. Round, with Foreword by Sir Frank Stenton
Barnes & Noble, 444 pp., $10.00
The Bayeux Tapestry: A comprehensive Survey
by Sir Frank Stenton. and others
Phaidon, 200 pp., $12.50
William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England
by D.C. Douglas
University of California, 398 pp., $9.50
William I and the Norman Conquest,
by F. Barlow
English University Press, 12s 6d.
The Military Organization of Norman England
by C. Warren Hollister
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 45s.
The Norman Conquest
by D.J.A. Matthew
Schocken Books, 300 pp., $8.50
The Conquest of England
by Eric Linklater
Doubleday, 336 pp., $5.95
The Making of the King 1066
by Alan Lloyd
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 243 pp., $6.00
Battle 1066
by C.N. Barclay
J. M. Dent & Sons (London), 21s.
So far as I know this is the first time that a centenary of the Norman Conquest has been celebrated. Although 1066 is the one date in English history that everybody knows, the events of that year and the personalities involved in them have never found a place in the popular memory. The spate of books which has greeted the centenary this year has been partly inspired by the desire to remedy this state of affairs and to bridge the gap between academic studies and the popular imagination. But they are not likely to achieve this result. With all their merits historians of the Conquest today have no message capable of penetrating the barrier between the universities and the outer world.
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