Norman and Plantagenet England 1066-1307

(5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module examines the kingdom of the English under one of its active and ambitious lines of kings. The module begins, in 1066, at a moment of profound crisis for the kingdom with the death of the last representative of the line of King Alfred, with a dramatic coup staged by the leading English earl, and with two major invasions one led by the king of the Norwegians, the other by the duke of the Normans.