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William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I. Offering an original explanation of medieval societyone that no longer employs traditional "feudal" or "bastard feudal" modelsCrouch argues that society remade itself around the emerging principle of nobility in the generations on either side of 1200, marking the beginning of the ancien rgime. Read more