Colonial England, 1066-1215 [Hardcover]

The process of colonisation that followed the Norman Conquest defined much of the history of England over the next 150 years, structurally altering the distribution of land and power in society. This theme is defined in a previously unpublished lecture on Colonial England, given in 1994, but it runs through all the sixteen essays in this collection. J.C. Holt's subjects include Domesday Book, the establishment of knight-service, aristocratic structures and nomenclature, the relation of family to property, security of title and inheritance, among other matters. He comments on the work of Maitland, Round and Stenton and ends with studies of the treaty of Winchester (1153), the rasus regis, and Magna Carta.

Colonial England, 1066-1215; Domesday Book, 1086-1986; 1086; Domesday Book and Beyond; Feudalism Retvisited; The Introduction of Knight-Service in England; The Carta of Riahard de La Haye; Politics and Property in Medieval England; Feudal Society and the Famiy in Early Medieval England: I. The Revolution of 1066; II. Notions of Patrimony; III. Politics and Patronage; IV The Heiress and the Alien; What's in a Name? Family Nomenclature and the Norman Conquest; The Treaty of Winchester, 1153; Magna Carta, 1215-1217: The Legal and Social Context; The Casus Regis: The Law and Politics of Succession in the Plantagenet Dominions, 1185- 1247; Index.