SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

The purpose of this bibliography is to provide pointers to some major histories and a few more precisely focused titles, as well as translations of important texts. More detailed bibliographies are to be found in the works listed here.

The first group of titles provides translations of texts and documents of the period. It should be noted that the Phillimore edition of Domesday Book, edited by John Morris, is published county by county, and includes a copy of the original text with en face translation. The first and second volumes of English Historical Documents include a translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; the second also offers a translation of the Dialogue of the Exchequer.

 

Amt, E., Medieval England, 1000–1500, A Reader (Ontario, 2001)

Douglas, D. C., and G. W. Greenaway, English Historical Documents 1042–1189, vol. 2 (London, 1968)

Downer, L. J., ed and trans., Leges Henrici Primi (Oxford, 1996)

Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain (London, 1966)

Malory, Thomas, Le Morte D’Arthur (London, 2000)

Morris, J., Domesday Book, 36 vols. (Chichester, 1986)

Swanton, M., ed. and trans., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (London, 1996)

Whitelock, D., English Historical Documents c.500–1042, vol. 1 (London, 1968)

Williams, A., and G. H. Martin, Domesday Book: A Complete Translation (London, 2002)

The following titles provide a broad narrative account of the history and culture of the period covered by this dictionary.

Barlow, F., The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042–1216, 2nd edn (London, 1963)

Bartlett, R., England under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075–1225 (Oxford, 2000)

Blair, P. H., An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, 2nd edn (Cambridge, 1997)

Brown, R. A., The Normans and the Norman Conquest, 2nd edn (Woodbridge, 1987)

Carpenter, D., The Struggle for Mastery, Britain, 1066-1284 (London, 2003)

Chibnall, M., Anglo-Norman England, 1066–1166 (Oxford, 1986)

Chibnall, M., The World of Orderic Vitalis (Woodbridge, 2001)

Huizinga, J., The Waning of the Middle Ages (London, 1990)

Lapidge, M., et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 2001)

Maitland, F. M., Domesday Book and Beyond (New York, 1966)

Myres, J. N. L., The English Settlements (Oxford, 1986)

Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England (London)

Poole, A. L., Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087–1216, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1958)

Southern, R. W., The Making of the Middle Ages (London, 1953)

Stenton, F. M., Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edn (Oxford, 1997)

The monographs below offer more sharply focused work.

Ayton, A., Knights and Warhorses: Military Service and the English Aristocracy under Edward III (Woodbridge, 1999)

Barber, R., The Knight and Chivalry, revised edn (Woodbridge, 1995)

Barber, R., The Arthurian Legends, An Illustrated Anthology (Woodbridge, 1991)

Barker, J., The Tournament in England, 1100–1400 (Woodbridge, 1986)

Crouch, D., The Normans – The History of a Dynasty (Hambledon and London, 2002)

Davies, R. R., The First English Empire, Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093–1343 (Oxford, 2000)

Dyer, C., Making a Living in the Middle Ages, The People of Britain 850–1520 (New Haven and London, 2002)

Hollister, C. W., Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions on the Eve of the Norman Conquest (Oxford, 1998)

Hyland, A., The Horse in the Middle Ages (Stroud, 1999)

McFarlane, K. B., The Nobility of Later Medieval England (Oxford, 1973)

Stenton, D. M., English Society in the Early Middle Ages, 4th edn (London, 1991)

Stenton, F. M., et al., The Bayeux Tapestry (London, 1957)

Walker, I. W., Mercia and the Making of England (Stroud, 2000)

Williams, A., The English and the Norman Conquest (Woodbridge, 1997)

Williams, A., Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England c.500–1066 (London, 1999)