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The introduction of Brown's book should be made compulsory reading- LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSThe `English' who faced the forces of William duke ofNormandy on 14 October 1066 were by no means a pure-bred and unified race, nor was the flower of England's manhood laid low by an army of self-seeking Norman opportunists. R. Allen Brown traces the forces and influences that shaped both England and Normandy in the decades before 1066, and shows howthe new order, emerging from the aftermath of the battle of Hastings, produced a degree of political unity and social dynamism previously unknown inEngland, bringing a reinvigorated nation fully into the mainstream of the dynamic expansion of western Latin Christendom.R. ALLEN BROWN was professorof History at King's College, London and founder of the annual Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman studies.
