[BITList] The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066 - c. 1220

[John Feltham]

The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 
1066 - c. 1220

By Hugh M. Thomas
 
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Publisher :   Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:   474
Publication Date:   2005-03-24
ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0199278865
ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780199278862

 Description:

This is an important new study of the impact of the Norman Conquest. It 
provides the first full explanation of how the English and the Normans 
merged to become the same people. The author draws on anthropological 
theory, the latest scholarship on Anglo-Norman England, and sources ranging 
from legal documents to romances.

 Table of Contents:

Part I: Theory and Background
1. Introduction
2. English Identity before the Norman Conquest
3. Normanitas
4. Ethnic Identity and Cultural Difference
5. A Chronology of Assimilation
6. A Chronology of Identity
7. Ideology, Prejudice, and Assimilation
Part II: Personal Interaction, Assimilation, and Identity
8. The Interaction of English and Normans: Methodological Considerations
9. The Aristocracy
10. English Women and Norman Men
11. The Peasants and the Middling Sort
12. Townspeople
13. The Religious
Epilogue

Part III: The Reconstruction of English Identity
14. The Defence of English Honour
15. The Image of England and a Sense of Place
16. Royal Government, England, and Englishness
17. The English Church, English Saints, England, and the English
18. Stereotypes and the Image of the English
19. The Image of the Other
20. The Intensification and Politicization of English Identity
Part IV: Identity and Culture
21. History and Identity
22. High Culture, Religious Culture, and Ethnicity
23. Language, Literature, and Ethnic Identity
Conclusion
Appendixes
Bibliography 

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