The History of the Norman Conquest of England - Volume 5

Edward Augustus Freeman (18231892) was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford and one of the pre-eminent historians of his generation. Politics was a constant interest for Freeman who was also a regular contributor to the Saturday Review. While he wrote on a variety of historical topics from ancient Greece to the German Federation and had a great interest in architecture this six-volume work published between 1867 and 1879 was his magnum opus. Freeman reconsiders how the history of the Conquest is understood and examines its causes and results. Volume 5 considers the effects of the Conquest examining the reigns of William Rufus Henry I and Stephen in the light of those effects rather than providing a narrative history of these reigns. Language and architecture also come under analysis in this volume.