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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results is a six-volume study of the Conquest by Edward A. Freeman, published between 1867 and 1879. Recognised by critics as a major work of scholarship on its first publication, it has since proved unpopular with readers, many of whom were put off by its enormous length and ...
Edward Augustus Freeman [1] (2 August 1823 – 16 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician, a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans; later he and Evans were activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1874–1878) against the Ottoman Empire.
The 19th-century historian Edward Freeman, in his History of the Norman Conquest, called him "a stranger who had done greater despite to Englishmen than any other man living", and could only suppose that "men's minds must have reached that state when any change seems as if it must be a change for the better". [8]
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
Douglas, David C., William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964 Freeman, Edward A., The Norman Council and the Assembly of Lillebonne, from The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Cambridge University Press, London, 2011 (archive)
Freeman, Edward A. (1871). The History of the Norman Conquest of England. Volume IV: The Reign of William the Conqueror. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Mason, Emma (2004). The House of Godwine: The History of a Dynasty. London: Hambledon and London. ISBN 1852853891; Walker, Ian W. (2010).
The 11th-century coin trove, known as the Chew Valley Hoard, is now England’s most valuable treasure find, revealing new information about the historical transition following the Norman Conquest.
The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of England. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1445649221. Freeman, Edward Augustus (1874).