English Heritage Book of Norman England

It is sometimes difficult to remember that for a long period England (and Wales and sometimes at least southern Scotland) were part of a larger empire, certainly encompassing Normandy and much of France; or that “English” monarchs in fact ruled over France (and often considered it a more important part of their kingdom). Physical Norman remains, not to mention linguistic and other derivatives, are still prominent among surviving structures, inevitably so given the power and durability with which they were built and their prominent locations, deliberately dominating the surrounding countryside.

So for once, a volume in the English Heritage Series,...