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This is the history of the powerful Godwin dynasty, from the mystery of their ancestral origins and background, to their rise to power under King Cnut, and their opportunism and accumulation of wealth under his successors.
Nobility --- Goodwin family. --- Godwin, Wulfnothsson, --- Harold --- Harold, --- Harold Godwineson, --- Harold Godwinson, --- Haroldus, --- Godwine, --- Godwin Wulfnothsson, --- Godwine Wulfnothsson, --- Wulfnothsson, Godwin, --- Great Britain --- History
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The contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a variety of disciplines. Subjects include the fables on the Bayeux Tapestry, the piety of Earl Godwine, the feudal quota of the pre-1066 Archbishops of Canterbury, Geoffrey Malaterra's treatment of Roger the Great Count, mints and money in Anglo-Norman England, the church of Lastingham, and a reappraisal of Lanfranc as theologian. David Bates is Professorial Fellow, University of East Anglia. Contributors: Martin Allen, Henry Bainton, Nicholas Brooks, Jonathan Grove, Toivo Holopainen, Chris Lewis, Tom Licence, Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel, Christopher Norton and Stuart Harrison, Rebecca Slitt, Stephen D. White, Ann Williams.
Normans --- Anglo-Saxons --- Saxons --- Northmen --- History --- Great Britain --- Anglo-Norman period. --- Archbishops of Canterbury. --- Bayeux Tapestry. --- Earl Godwine. --- Geoffrey Malaterra. --- Lanfranc. --- Lastingham. --- Medieval England. --- Medieval history. --- Mints. --- Money.
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