Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FOREWORD TO THE YALE EDITION ix
4. PREFACE xiii
5. ABBREVIATIONS xv
6. PROLOGUE 3
7. Part I. THE YOUNG DUKE
8. 1. Birth and Inheritance 15
9. 2. Accession and Minority (1035-1047) 31
10. 3. The War for Survival (1047-1060) 53
11. Part II. THE DUKE IN HIS DUCHY
12. 4. The Duke and the New Aristocracy 83
13. 5. The Ecclesiastical Revival 105
14. 6. The Rule of Duke William 133
15. Part III. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN KINGDOM
16. 7. Normandy and England (1035-1065) 159
17. 8. The Conquest of England (January 1066-March 1067) 181
18. 9. The Defence of the Anglo-Norman Kingdom (March 1067- November 1085) 211
19. Part IV. THE KING IN HIS KINGDOM
20. 10. WILLELMUS REX 247
21. 11. THE FEUDAL POLITY 265
22. 12. THE ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 289
23. 13. The King in the Church 317
24. 14. The End of the Reign (Christmas 1085-9 September 1087) 346
25. EPILOGUE 367
26. APPENDICES
27. APPENDIX A. The birth of William the Conqueror, and the connexions of Herleve 379
28. APPENDIX B. The chronology of Duke William’s campaigns between 1047 and I054 383
29. APPENDIX C. The marriage of William and Matilda 391
30. APPENDIX D. The sequence of events in 1066 396
31. APPENDIX E. The chronology of King William’s campaigns between 1073 and 1081 401
32. APPENDIX F. On poisoning as a method of political action in eleventh-century Normandy 408
33. SELECT CHART PEDIGREES 417
34. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 427
35. SCHEDULE OF SELECTED DATES 449
36. INDEX 457