Further reading

Edward the Confessor by Frank Barlow (Yale University Press, 1997) £14.95
This biography of Edward the Confessor, first published in 1970, aims to rescue the image of the king from what the author sees as myth and bogus scholarship. Disentangling fact from legend, the text recreates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Normans.

The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216 by Frank Barlow (Longman, 1999) £19.99
Frank Barlow's classic survey of Anglo-Norman England from the eve of the Norman Conquest through to the aftermath of Magna Carta. Now in its fifth edition, this hugely successful text has been updated, to include discussion of the place of women in Anglo-Norman England. Frank Barlow – doyen of Anglo-Norman historians – illuminates every aspect of the period as he goes, but the central appeal of the book remains its firm narrative structure. Here is a fascinating story compellingly told.

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