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Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066-c.1220.

Publication: Medium Aevum
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04 		Format: Online - approximately 606 words
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Full Article Title: Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066-c.1220.(Book Review)

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Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066-c.1220 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), xii + 462 pp. ISBN 0-19-925 123-1. 65.00 [pounds sterling].

Hugh Thomas's meticulously researched book seeks to re-examine the processes by which English identity was triumphantly reforged following the Conquest. His study is driven by the need to address what he calls 'a certain complacency in past scholarship' (p. 7) about the inevitability of this event. Self-consciously describing the work as 'a new look at an old subject' (p. 8), he...

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