This work challenges the complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066. Drawing on a variety of sources, it... » 

This work challenges the complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066. Drawing on a variety of sources, it provides a case study in pre-modern ethnic relations, shedding light on some important developments in English history. «