Table of Contents

Introduction. 1 Church and Economy in the Long Twelfth Century 2 The Church and the Norman Conquest 3. Henry I and His Religion. 4 The Conflict Between Henry II and Thomas Becket. 5 Parishes and Parish Priests 6 The Monastic Century 1066–1216 7 Archbishop Hubert Walter and St Hugh of Lincoln: Church and King in the late Twelfth Century 8 Intellectual Life and Culture and How Related to Politics in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries 9 The Early English Franciscans 10 Changes and Continuities under Henry III

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A compelling account of political, religious and social change in Anglo-Norman England.

About the Author

Henry Mayr-Harting is ex Regius Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on the early medieval period.