The Normans -
People and Places, Castles and Cathedrals, Art and Architecture
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Online
- English Heritage Collections - The Norman Conquest Collection - A gallery of many colourful images of castles, cathedrals and other sites, on the English Heritage Images site
- The
Gatehouse - A comprehensive online gazetteer and bibliography of the
medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales, the
Channel Isles and the Isle of Man
The Gatehouse site includes county indexes, sources, essays - The Lands of the Normans (1204 - 1244) - Background information pages; images of documents and other sources; searchable database of places and people; selected case-studies of Anglo-Norman families; glossary
- Corpus of Romanesque
Sculpture in Britain and Ireland - A growing online archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone
sculpture, which flourished following the Norman Conquest in 1066
Much of this sculpture remains in parish churches and cathedrals, houses and halls, castles and museums
You can search the collection or browse it county by county, so you can easily discover what remains in Bedfordshire - Cathedrals Plus - This Cathedrals Pius site gives you links to sites for individual British cathedrals, amongst which are many built by the Normans
- PASE (Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England) A searchable database of every recorded person in Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England
- PASE is compiled from inscriptions, coins and written sources. It reveals who owned what,both before and after 1066
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(ODNB)-
Log in to the e-resources with your library card number and PIN to view the ODNB online
The ODNB online gives you a 'Monarchs of England' list divided chronologically
Start by entering a search for William the Conqueror
You will see the other related links at the left - Oxford Art Online -
Log in to the e-resources to access Oxford Art Online with your library card number and PIN
Search Norman in the 'Concise Oxford dictionary of art terms', for a concise explanation of Norman art
Follow that up by a search on the term Romanesque in 'Grove Art Online'
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