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Conquest, anarchy, and lordship :

0521450985

9780521450980

b726304

Conquest, anarchy, and lordship :

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Yorkshire, 1066-1154 /

Paul Dalton.

New York, NY, USA :

Cambridge University Press,

1994.

xxii, 345 pages :

maps ;

23 cm.

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;

4th ser., 27

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and index.

1. The Norman Conquest of Yorkshire -- 2. The Transformation of Yorkshire 1066-1135: Territorial Consolidation and Administrative Integration -- 3. The Transformation of Yorkshire 1086-1135: Military Enfeoffment and Monasteries -- 4. The Reign of Stephen -- 5. The Scots in the North -- 6. Cartae Baronum, New Enfeoffments and the Nature of the Honour -- 7. The First Century of English Feudalism.

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Focussing on Yorkshire, by far the largest English county, this book examines three of the most important themes in the period described by Sir Frank Stenton as 'the first century of English feudalism': the Norman conquest, the anarchy of Stephen's reign and the nature of lordship and land tenure. In each case the book offers a strong challenge to dominant interpretations, and seeks to alter in significant ways our conception of Anglo-Norman politics and government.

The final section of the book deals with lordship, one of the most significant aspects of medieval society. It challenges Stenton's conception of twelfth-century society as a 'seignorial world' organised principally around the honour and dominated by baronial lordship. It reveals that on some (perhaps many) honours the bonds of association between the tenantry, and the powers of lords over their men, were weaker than Stenton supposed, and that royal intervention in the honour was far more regular. In doing so it undermines one of the basic premises of those legal historians who argue that the origins of the English Common Law are to be found in the legal reforms of Henry II. The book will therefore be essential reading on both 'the first century' and 'the legal framework' of English feudalism.

The first section of the book reveals that the Norman conquest of Yorkshire was a much more rapid and carefully controlled process than has hitherto been supposed; that, initially at least, it owed a great deal to the construction of castles and organisation of castleries; that during the reign of the Conqueror's youngest son, Henry I, its character changed as the king sought to bring Yorkshire under tighter central administrative control and promote monasticism there; and that its impact upon tenurial structure and terms of land tenure, although considerable, has been overestimated. The second section of the book examines the anarchy of King Stephen's reign and its consequences in Yorkshire. It challenges the view that Stephen's creation of earls was a deliberate attempt to impose an alternative conception of government, and illustrates how the greater magnates profited from, and in some cases sought to promote, a failure of royal control.

Feudalism-- England-- Yorkshire.

Land tenure-- England-- Yorkshire-- History-- To 1500.

Normans-- England-- Yorkshire.

Féodalité-- Yorkshire (Angleterre)-- Histoire.

Normands (Français)-- Yorkshire (Angleterre)-- Histoire.

Propriété foncière-- Yorkshire (Angleterre)-- Histoire.

Seigneuries-- Yorkshire (Angleterre)-- Histoire.

Feodalisme.

Féodalité-- Grande-Bretagne-- Angleterre (GB)

Feudalism-- England-- Yorkshire-- History.

Feudalism.

Geschichte 1066-1154.

Herrschaft

Land tenure.

Normandiërs.

Normands-- Grande-Bretagne-- Yorkshire Terrier (race canine)-- Histoire.

Normans.

Politics and government

Propriété foncière-- Grande-Bretagne-- Yorkshire Terrier (race canine)-- Histoire.

Great Britain, History, Norman period, 1066-1154.

Yorkshire (England), Politics and government.

Grande-Bretagne, Histoire, 1066-1154 (Période normande)

Yorkshire (Angleterre), Politique et gouvernement.

England, Yorkshire.

Grande-Bretagne, 1066-1154 (Période normande)

Great Britain, History, Norman period, 1066-1154.

Great Britain.

York

Yorkshire (England), History.

Yorkshire (GB), 11e siècle.

Yorkshire (GB), 12e siècle.

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