Volume 2, Number 3 · March 19, 1964
A Matter of History
By Alan Bennett
The Governance of Mediaeval England from the Conquest to Magna Carta
by H.G. Richardson, by G.O. Sayles
Aldine, 550 pp., $12.50
It is not often that medieaval history is subject for polemics and it is fitting that when it is, the object should be a man who has been in his grave sixty years and more. This book is an account of the growth of English institutions from 1066 to 1215. It is also a sustained and violent attack on the ability and reputation of a man who has some claim to be the founder of English mediaeval studies, Williams Stubbs.
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