William the Conqueror David C. Douglas, Frank Barlow

In "William the Conquerer, " 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.

"Douglas' William the Conqueror possesses the real and elusive quality of greatness. . . . Its originality will surely become the orthodoxy of the next generation."--"Speculum