The Normans and Empire

In 2010, David Bates Presented The Ford Lectures In British History At The University Of Oxford ... [this] Book Was Born From These Lectures. It Provides An Interpretative Analysis Of The History Of The Cross-channel Empire Created By William The Conqueror In 1066 To Its End In 1204 When The Duchy Of Normandy Was Conquered By The French King, Philip Augustus, The So-called 'loss Of Normandy'. Bates Proposes That Historians Of The Normans Can Learn From The Methods Of Social Scientists And Historians Of Other Periods Of History - Such As Making Use Of Such Tools As Life-stories And Biographies - And He Employs Such Methods To Offer An Interpretative History Of The Normans, As Well As A Broader History Of England, The British Isles, And Northern France In The Eleventh And Twelfth Centuries--provided By Publisher. The Normans And Empire -- The Experience Of Empire -- William The Conqueror As Maker Of Empire -- Hegemony -- Core, Periphery, And Networks -- Empire : From Beginning To End. David Bates. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.