Goldings attention for the colonization of the land, rather than focusing on just the prelude and the battle itself, makes his a much more interesting approach than that of many others. (See for example Morillo’s The Battle of Hastings or DeVries’s The Norwegian Invasion of England in 1066).
Where most of the studies on the Norman invasion focus on the events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and its immediate aftermath. The concise nature of the book, the maps, and its clear and thematic approach make the book a real pleasure to read. Its author, Brian Golding, recently revised the work and brought it up to date with current debates in the field, thereby also adding parts about the colonization of towns, the role of women in relation to the Conquest and the impact of the regime change on the peasantry. William the Conqueror’s victory at Hastings in 1066 and its effects in the half century that followed are the subject of this book, which originally saw the light in 1994. Viewed by some as marking the end of the true English state, and by others as its proper beginning, there is no doubt about the enormous consequences the Norman invasion and battle of Hastings had for Britain, but also for Western Europe. Paperback, with maps, notes and select bibliographyįew subjects have fuelled as much discussion and caused the writing of so many books as the Norman conquest of Anglo-Saxon England. Palgrave Macmillan, second revised edition, Basingstoke 2013 Brian Golding, Conquest and Colonisation.
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