A comprehensive and authoritative short guide, this Very Short
Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the
Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's
failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle
Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of identity in
Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing
definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural
tradition.