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The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. The VSI Library now contains over 200 volumes — a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology—and will continue to grow to a library of around 300 titles. Very Short Introductions available now: AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea Richard Rathbone BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright American Political Parties BUDDHA Michael Carrithers and Elections L. Sandy Maisel BUDDHISM Damien Keown The american presidency BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown Charles O. Jones CAPITALISM James Fulcher ANARCHISM Colin Ward catholicism Gerald O’Collins ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY CHAOS Leonard Smith Julia Annas CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham ANCIENT WARFARE CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson Harry Sidebottom CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman citizenship Richard Bellamy THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE Classical Mythology John Blair Helen Morales ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia CLASSICS Mary Beard Antisemitism Steven Beller and John Henderson the apocryphal gospels CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard Paul Foster THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn communism Leslie Holmes ARCHITECTURE CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore Andrew Ballantyne CONTEMPORARY ART ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes Julian Stallabrass ART HISTORY Dana Arnold CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland Simon Critchley ATHEISM Julian Baggini COSMOLOGY Peter Coles AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman autism Uta Frith CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and BARTHES Jonathan Culler Sean Murphy Bestsellers John Sutherland DADA AND SURREALISM THE BIBLE John Riches David Hopkins biblical archeology DARWIN Jonathan Howard Eric H. Cline THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS biography Hermione Lee Timothy Lim the book of mormon DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick Terryl Givens deserts Nick Middleton DESCARTES Tom Sorell HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson DESIGN John Heskett HEGEL Peter Singer DINOSAURS David Norman HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood Documentary film HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson Patricia Aufderheide HINDUISM Kim Knott DREAMING J. Allan Hobson HISTORY John H. Arnold DRUGS Leslie Iversen the history of astronomy THE EARTH Martin Redfern Michael Hoskin ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta the history of life EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch Michael Benton EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY the history of medicine BRITAIN Paul Langford William Bynum THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball the history of time EMOTION Dylan Evans Leofranc Holford-Strevens EMPIRE Stephen Howe HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside ENGELS Terrell Carver HOBBES Richard Tuck ETHICS Simon Blackburn HUMAN EVOLUTION The european union Bernard Wood John Pinder and Simon Usherwood HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham EVOLUTION Brian and HUME A. J. Ayer Deborah Charlesworth IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn INDIAN PHILOSOPHY FASCISM Kevin Passmore Sue Hamilton FEMINISM Margaret Walters INTELLIGENCE Ian J. 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Foster PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler MODERN ART David Cottington and Freda McManus MODERN china Rana Mitter the quakers Pink Dandelion MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta QUANTUM THEORY MODERN japan John Polkinghorne Christopher Goto-Jones RACISM Ali Rattansi MOLECULES Philip Ball the reformation Peter Marshall mormonism relativity Russell Stannard Richard Lyman Bushman the reagan revolution Gil Troy MUSIC Nicholas Cook religion in america MYTH Robert A. Segal Timothy Beal NATIONALISM Steven Grosby THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton nelson mandela Elleke Boehmer RENAISSANCE ART The new testament as Geraldine A. Johnson literature Kyle Keefer ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway NEWTON Robert Iliffe THE ROMAN EMPIRE NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner Christopher Kelly NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler Christopher Harvie RUSSELL A. C. Grayling and H. C. G. Matthew RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly the norman conquest THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION George Garnett S. A. 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Hand POSTSTRUCTURALISM STUART BRITAIN John Morrill Catherine Belsey superconductivity PREHISTORY Chris Gosden Stephen Blundell TERRORISM Charles Townshend THE VIKINGS Julian Richards THEOLOGY David F. Ford WITTGENSTEIN thomas aquinas Fergus Kerr A. C. Grayling TRAGEDY Adrian Poole WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman THE TUDORS John Guy THE WORLD TRADE TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN ORGANIZATION Kenneth O. Morgan Amrita Narlikar the united nations writing and script Jussi M. Hanhimäki Andrew Robinson Available soon: neoliberalism epidemiology Manfred B. Steger Roldolfo Saracci and Ravi K. Roy Progressivism forensic science Jim Fraser Walter Nugent the laws of thermodynamics information Peter Atkins Luciano Floridi For more information visit our website www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ This page intentionally left blank George Garnett the norman conquest A Very Short Introduction 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © George Garnett 2009 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2009 All rights reserved. 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