In William the Conqueror, Professor Douglas analyzes the causes and the true character of the Norman impact upon England in the eleventh century. The work is both a study of Anglo-Norman history and a biography of a man whose personal career was spectacular, and as reviewers have remarked, it is distinguished by a wealth of scholarship linked to a lucid and agreeable style.
Chapter 1. Birth and Inheritance
Chapter 2. Accession and Minority (1035–1047)
Chapter 3. The War for Survival (1047–1060)
Chapter 4. The Duke and the New Aristocracy
Chapter 5. The Ecclesiastical Revival
Chapter 6. The Rule of Duke William
Chapter 7. Normandy and England (1035–1065)
Chapter 8. The Conquest of England (January 1066–March 1067)
Chapter 9. The Defence of the Anglo-Norman Kingdom (March 1067–November 1085)
Chapter 12. The Royal Administration
Chapter 13. The King in the Church
Chapter 14. The End of the Reign (Christmas 1085–9 September 1087)
A - The birth of William the Conqueror, and the connexions of Herleve
B - The chronology of Duke William's campaigns between 1047 and 1054
C - The marriage of William and Matilda
D - The sequence of events in 1066
E - The chronology of King William's campaigns between 1073 and 1081
F - On poisoning as a method of political action in eleventh-century Normandy
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